
Developmental Juvenile Osteology
Description
Key Features
- Identifies every component of the juvenile skeleton, by providing a detailed analysis of development and ageing and a detailed description of each bone in four ways: adult bone, early development, ossification and practical notes
- New chapters and updated sections covering the dentition, age estimation in the living and bone histology
- An updated bibliography documenting the research literature that has contributed to the field over the past
15 years since the publication of the first edition - Heavily illustrated, including new additions
Readership
Table of Contents
- Chapter 1: Introduction: A Guide to the Text
Chapter 2: Skeletal Development and Aging
Chapter 3: Bone Development
Chapter 4: Early Embryological Development
Chapter 5: The Skull
Chapter 6: Dentition
Chapter 7: The Vertebral Column
Chapter 8: The Thorax
Chapter 9: The Pectoral Girdle
Chapter 10: The Upper Limb
Chapter 11: The Pelvic Girdle
Chapter 12: The Lower Limb
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
References
Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 630
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2016
- Published: July 26, 2016
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780123821065
- eBook ISBN: 9780123821072
About the Authors
Craig Cunningham
Affiliations and Expertise
Louise Scheuer
She is a member of the Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Association of Clinical Anatomy and a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute and of the Royal Society of Medicine.
She and Sue (Prof.) Black held a Leverhulme Grant for the conservation and re-evaluation of the St. Bride’s Church skeletal collection.
She has worked with forensic pathologists, coroners and police on the identification of human remains and was a forensic anthropologist in the British Foreign and Commonwealth Team investigating war crimes in Kosovo in 1999 and the team examining the 7/7 London tube bombings in 2005. She is the past Chairman of the Forensic Examination Committee of the Royal Anthropological Institute.
Affiliations and Expertise
Sue Black
Affiliations and Expertise
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