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Continuing Osteological Research with Fairmont State University’s Human Skeletal Collection

Proceedings of the West Virginia Academy of Science
Human skeletal remains have been used at some point by most institutions involved in natural science education, though many real remains are slowly being replaced in classroom use by plastic models. Unfortunately, most antique teaching skeletons still in collections today were obtained during an ethically gray era, resulting in a lack of documentation ...
Jay Bow, Kristy Henson
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The Digitization of Human Skeletal Collections: New Challenges and Perspectives

Heritage
Human skeletal remains are a crucial source for understanding biocultural and evolutionary processes. Yet, their study and management are challenged by social, religious, and political factors, placing them in a ‘grey area’ within cultural heritage ...
Maria Giovanna Belcastro, Rita Sorrentino, Davide Mameli, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Teresa Nicolosi, Valentina Mariotti, Carla Figus, Elisa Lodolo, Laura Forni, Stefano Ratti, Antonio Rosas, Luis Francisco Ríos Frutos, Antony Colombo, Melania Maglio, Lucia Martini, Gregorio Marchiori, Gianluca Giavaresi, Milena Fini   +17 more
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Maximum length of deciduous dentition as an indicator of age during the first year of life: Methodological validation in a contemporary osteological collection

Forensic Science International, 2019
Out of all the available methods for estimating age at death from immature human skeletal remains, those based on odontometric variables of deciduous dentition have proved to be one of the most accurate.
Selene Petrone, Gonzalo Garizoain, Rocío García Mancuso, Ana María Inda   +3 more
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Whale Collections and Exhibitions at the Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa (Italy)

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The Natural History Museum of the University of Pisa hosts the most important osteological collection of extant cetaceans in Italy as well as one of the most relevant all over Europe.
Simone Farina, Chiara Sorbini, Patrizia Scaglia, Marco Merella, Alberto Collareta, Giovanni Bianucci   +5 more
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The Hamann-Todd Human Osteological Collection: A Representative Sample? [PDF]

Am J Biol Anthropol
Wissler A, Lieurance A, Reynolds A, Bailey L, Nichols L, Umar M, Widrick K, Zuckerman MK.   +7 more
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Reassessing museum archaeological collections: unprecedented osteological and ceramic data for the Sucuriju site at the Urubu River, Central Amazon, Brazil [PDF]

Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas, 2017
This article presents laboratory studies of the archaeological collection from the Sucuriju site which has been stored for decades at the technical reserve of the Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi.
Helena Pinto Lima, Claudia M. Cunha
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Pathological and normal variability of foot bones in osteological collections from Catalonia (Spain) and Lazio (Italy) [PDF]

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2021
Eduardo Saldías, Albert Isidro, Cristina Martínez‐Labarga, Alfredo Coppa, Mauro Rubini, Bernardo Vila, Assumpció Malgosa   +6 more
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Bifid rib in bioarchaeological material on the example of new cases from Poland with literature review and proposal of classification [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The anomaly known as a bifid rib is difficult to quantify in bioarchaeological collections not only because of its rarity in the population itself (less than 1.5%), but also because of vulnerability to postmortem damage of this part of the skeleton as ...
Joanna Mietlińska-Sauter, Elena Varotto, Elżbieta Żądzińska, Wiesław Lorkiewicz, Francesco Maria Galassi   +4 more
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Predictive use of modern reference osteological collections for disentangling the shape of Eurasian equid cheek teeth and metapodials in archaeological material

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2023
Equids have shaped past Eurasian societies in many ways. This applies in particular to domestic horses, donkeys, and their hybrids. Key to documenting modes of exploitation and cultural trajectories in past societies is the correct taxonomic ...
A. Mohaseb, R. Cornette, Michaela I. Zimmermann, H. Davoudi, Rémi Berthon, C. Guintard, T. Cucchi, P. Hanot, E. Mohandesan, V. Eisenmann, J. Peters, M. Mashkour   +11 more
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Scientific and Ethical Aspects of Identified Skeletal Series: The Case of the Documented Human Osteological Collections of the University of Bologna (Northern Italy)

Forensic Sciences, 2022
Osteological collections are an essential source of information on human biological and cultural variability, providing insights about developmental, evolutionary, and biocultural processes.
M. G. Belcastro, Annalisa Pietrobelli, Teresa Nicolosi, M. Milella, V. Mariotti   +4 more
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