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Human Osteology
Human Osteology, Second Edition is designed for students and professionals who wish to advance their osteological skills in terms of accurately identifying human skeletal remains, however isolated and fragmentary. These remains can then be used to deduce information about the original lives of the ...
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First published January 1, 1991
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Tim D. White
8 books16 followersTimothy Douglas White (b. 1950) is an American paleoanthropologist and Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley.
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August 23, 2024
Why would a fiction writer and reader write a post about a book on osteology? Two words: Reference, inspiration.
As an undergraduate at BYU, I took a Human Osteology class from Dr. Dale Berge, a wonderful man who fanned my flame for academic curiosity. I'll never forget the final for the class. We had to identify, sex and age around 120 random bones, as well as noting and explaining the source of any unusual ulcerations, scoring, arrow wounds (yes, you read that right), etc. One of the more difficult and rewarding tests I've taken. Dr. Berge threw us all for a loop by including a bone that looked *sort of* like a human pelvis, maybe an infant pelvis, but . . . not quite. It wasn't until none of us could figure out what it was that he revealed that it was a whale vertebrae. Now, if I ever encounter a whale vertebrae on the beach, I'll be able to identify it. It's good to have skills . . .
So I use this book as my bible of bones. It is a fantastic reference, with hundreds of black and white photographs, carefully diagrammed, and some text that helps explain some of the features. If you want to know bones, get this book.
It's also served as inspiration, specifically for my story "The Bones of Ndundi," which appeared in Notre Dame Review and which is reprinted in my collection Fossiloctopus. Human Osteology has also spurred other fictions, though none so directly as this.
In any case, it's good to know your bones.
As an undergraduate at BYU, I took a Human Osteology class from Dr. Dale Berge, a wonderful man who fanned my flame for academic curiosity. I'll never forget the final for the class. We had to identify, sex and age around 120 random bones, as well as noting and explaining the source of any unusual ulcerations, scoring, arrow wounds (yes, you read that right), etc. One of the more difficult and rewarding tests I've taken. Dr. Berge threw us all for a loop by including a bone that looked *sort of* like a human pelvis, maybe an infant pelvis, but . . . not quite. It wasn't until none of us could figure out what it was that he revealed that it was a whale vertebrae. Now, if I ever encounter a whale vertebrae on the beach, I'll be able to identify it. It's good to have skills . . .
So I use this book as my bible of bones. It is a fantastic reference, with hundreds of black and white photographs, carefully diagrammed, and some text that helps explain some of the features. If you want to know bones, get this book.
It's also served as inspiration, specifically for my story "The Bones of Ndundi," which appeared in Notre Dame Review and which is reprinted in my collection Fossiloctopus. Human Osteology has also spurred other fictions, though none so directly as this.
In any case, it's good to know your bones.
September 11, 2007
This book provides true to life, actual-sized pictures of every bone in the human body from multiple angles. It teaches how to side, age, sex, and pretty much identify every human bone. There is a reason why it's one of the bibles of human osteology. If you work with human skeletal remains, then you probably already own it.
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December 3, 2020Thanks to a super thrifty find, I FINALLY managed to order a copy of this text. Until today, it was a little out of my reach price-wise.
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June 7, 2018last 15% is glossary...hard read as it is a txt book. had to keep going back nd fourth nd googling some tech pieces and diagrams ect... but got there. just wish was putting it to good use but still glad I made my way through it
July 23, 2012
This is, hands down, one of the best osteological references there is. It is everything you could hope for without moving to 3d or video. Its value lies mainly in the photographs with different views, and in the systematic way it guides you through identifying bones. It includes dental identification.
February 12, 2014
I have read this "reference" book a few times and studied it for several classes. Hands down the best study aid for human osteology I have ever encountered. Got me through a number of archaeology classes, papers and fieldwork.
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June 2, 2007the tell all and end all of all begining osteological texts I love this book.
September 9, 2009
The top guide to osteology available!
August 17, 2010
Great primer for the beginning osteologist. I spent many hours with this text during Winter quarter, long ago...
December 2, 2014
The pictures were decent but many of the labels were off or difficult to see. The sections on indivduation were lacking with many better tips found in William M. Bass's field manual
September 28, 2015
The ultimate osteology resource.
January 28, 2010
Human Osteology, Second Edition by Tim D. White (1999)
March 14, 2016
The clay tablets in forensic osteology.
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