Anthropology - Reference Skeletal Anatomy - Fusing Growth
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By examining the image below to see how the fontanels, described, grow and fuse with the other bones to form the sutures. Although these sutures are as unique as fingerprints, as they cannot be seen antemortem (not without surgery, or a violent accident), they are not useful in terms of identification.
The sutures are, however, useful in terms of determining the approximate age of a skull. In terms of the sutures, as we grow older, the sutures ultimately completely fill in. The less filled in, the younger the person.
Bolivian Female,
Brain Surgery Survivor,
800 AD
Brain Surgery Survivor,
800 AD
Peruvian Male, Bound Skull & Brain Surgery Survivor,
7000 BCE
7000 BCE
Unfortunately, not everyone survived the surgery. Survival, even with advancing technology, was even more unlikely during the 19th century, as hygiene and bacteria was not identified as being linked. Surgeons would go straight from the morgue to the operating theatre without the hygienic preperation.
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