Paleopathology in an Ancestral Pueblo Site: Late Pueblo I to Pueblo II

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Paleopathologyin an Ancestral Pueblo SiteLate
Pueblo I to Pueblo II

• By Cathey Ann Cline
• Eastern New Mexico University

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Evidence of Trauma
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Depression Fracture of the Skull Burial 54
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Fracture of the Fibula Kiva Burial
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Evidence of Activity
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Contact Facet Base of Skull
Close-up of Contact Facet
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Vertebra Burial 25
Schmorls Node
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Congenital Conditions
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Unfused Metopic Suture Burial 49
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Degenerative Conditions
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Osteochondritis non-dissecans of the Acetabulum
Burials 78 10
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Infectious Disease
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Effects of Nutritional Deficiency
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Osteoblastic Tumors
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Multiple Button Osteomae of the Skull Burial 65
Frontal Bone
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Single Button Osteoma of the Skull Burial 77
Parietal Bone
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Chondrosarcoma of the Femoral Metaphysis Burial
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