ANTH 3420 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Spinal Canal, Periosteum, Enthesopathy

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Anth 3420 skeletal pathologies and anomalies - 22/11/16. Types of identification tentative or consistent by exclusion positive. Methods of identification skeletal pathology, skeletal anomalies, medical records, frontal sinus patterns, dental records, photographic superimposition, facial reproduction, Skeletal pathology can provide clues to the cause and manner of death help narrow the search for a missing person be useful in making a positive identification. It is important to distinguish between taphonomic and pathological changes to bone. Pseudo-pathology (false pathology something caused by something other than a disease, but causes it to look like a disease) can result from the following processes chemical (lye, acid), physical (animals), biology (animals, bacteria, insects), cultural (modification) Limitation to skeletal pathology many diseases don not leave evidence in bone cause of death can be rarely be determined from bone different diseases can produce similar lesions diagnosis may not be possible. The rarer the lesion, the greater the chance of making a positive identification.

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