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Paleopathology in an Ancestral Pueblo Site: Late Pueblo I to Pueblo II. By Cathey Ann Cline Eastern New Mexico University. Evidence of Trauma. Depression Fracture of the Skull Burial 54. Fracture of the Fibula: Kiva Burial. Evidence of Activity. Contact Facet: Base of Skull.
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Paleopathologyin an Ancestral Pueblo Site:Late Pueblo I to Pueblo II By Cathey Ann Cline Eastern New Mexico University
Contact Facet: Base of Skull Close-up of Contact Facet
Vertebra: Burial 25 Schmorl’s Node
Osteochondritis non-dissecans of the Acetabulum: Burials 78 & 10
Multiple Button Osteomae of the Skull: Burial 65 Frontal Bone
References Akins, Nancy J. 1986 A Biocultural Approach to Human Burials from Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Reports of the Chaco Center, No. 9. Branch of Cultural Research, National Park Service, Santa Fe. Giacobbe, John A. 1999 “Demography, Paleopathology, and Activity-Related Anomolies of Human Skeletal Material from the Rio Puerco Valley, Sandoval County, NM. Master’s thesis on file at Eastern New Mexico University, Portales. Miles, James S. 1975 Orthopedic Problems of the Wetherwill Mesa Populations. Publications in Archaeology 7G, National Park Service, Washington, D.C. Ortner, Donald J. 2003 Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains. 2nd Edition. Academic Press, Amsterdam.