Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking.

  • Oetteking, Bruno, 1871-
Date:
1928
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Credit: Morphological and metrical variation in skulls from San Miguel Island, California : II. The foramen magnum: shape, size, correlations / by Bruno Oetteking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table I Catalogue No. Age Specimen State of Preserva¬ tion Remarks 891 senile skeleton good Also fragmen¬ tary bones of a fetus 892 senile skeleton good Burial no. i ^93 mature skeleton fair Burial no. 2 894 senile cranium good Burial no. 3 895 mature calvarium good ium, i.e., without its lower jaw. It will be ob¬ served that the five individuals whose bones are tabulated were of mature to senile age, which accounts for a certain porosity of the bones, the primary stages in general of osseous atrophy carried to an extreme in the lower jaws, and for the more or less developed arthritic degener¬ ation, particularly in the vertebral joints. Two notable cases, one of arthritis in a metatarso¬ phalangeal joint, and the other, through peri- ostitic degeneration, of concrescence of the right metacarpalia iii-v, obtain, besides spondy¬ litic deformations, in No. 892. These two cases are illustrated in fig. 82. The osseous relief in the longbones is not strongly pronounced, but the platycnemic con¬ dition of the tibiae in various degrees of develop¬ ment are of significance from the Indian diag- [337]