Test of the Relationship Between Sutural Ossicles and Cultural Cranial Deformation: Results From Hawikuh, New Mexico.

A study reexamined the hypothesis that the biomechanical forces linked to cultural cranial deformation can influence the formation of sutural ossicles. Data were obtained from a single archeological sample of lamdoidally deformed, occipitally deformed, and undeformed crania from Hawikuh, New Mexico...

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Published in:	American Journal of Physical Anthropology Vol. 139; no. 4; pp. 483 - 494
Main Authors:	Wilczak, Cynthia A., Ousley, Stephen D.
Format:	Article
Published:	John Wiley & Sons, Inc. August 2009
Subjects:	Archaeological excavations Skull abnormalities Cranial sutures Physical anthropology New Mexico
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost