PALEOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPRETATION: BONE DISEASE IN ANCIENT HUMAN POPULATIONS

STEINBOCK, R. TED & T. DALE STEWART

ISBN 10: 0398035121 / ISBN 13: 9780398035129

Published by Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL, 1976

About this Item

pp: 423 D. The author's provide ".a basic framework for those interested in diagnosing and interpreting bone lesions found in unearthed human skeletons." [jacket blurb]. The book is illustrated throughout with photographs and xrays. Each section has a bibliography, and has an author and subject index at the end of the text. Overall, a very good to near fine copy in a very good dust jacket.

Seller Inventory # 006358

Bibliographic Details

• Title: PALEOPATHOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS AND INTERPRETATION: BONE DISEASE IN ANCIENT HUMAN POPULATIONS
• Publisher: Charles C. Thomas, Springfield, IL
• Publication Date: 1976
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0398035121
• ISBN 13: 9780398035129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
  • ESSENTIAL REFERENCE
  • INDIGENOUS AND NATIVE PEOPLES

About this title

Synopsis

This book provides a systematic approach to diagnosing bone lesions in excavated skeletal series and interpreting the significance of such diseases in ancient human populations. Chapters discuss the biology and gross anatomy of normal bone to aid in understanding the bone changes produced by pathological conditions, and cover the major traumatic, infectious, nutritional, metabolic degenerative, and neoplastic diseases of bone. A special section is devoted to establishing nutritional deficiency as the cause of peculiar lesions found in large numbers of excavated crania. The chapter on bone tumors and tumor-like processes defines the gross morphology of each condition to aid in diagnosing dried bone specimens where histology is unavailable.