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Number 30                                   1976
STUDIES IN CALIFORNIA PALEOPATHOLOGY
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CONTRIBUTIONS
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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FACILITY
1976
STUDIES IN CALIFORNIA PALEOPATHOLOGY
by
J. Michael Hoffman
and
Lynda Brunker
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Department of Anthropology
Berkeley
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface                                                iii
I.       A Bibliography of California Paleopathology
J. Michael Hoffman and Lynda Brunker
Comminuted Fracture of a Humerus with
Pseudoarthrosis Formation
J. Michael Hoffman                              25
III.     Enlarged Parietal Foramina -- Their
Morphological Variation and Use in Assessing
Prehistoric Biological Relationships
J. Michael Hoffman                              41
IV.      An Achondroplastic Dwarf from the Augustine
Site (CA-Sac-127)
J. Michael Hoffman
with a radiographic interpretation by
Dr. James 0. Johnston                            65
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PREFACE
fthese studies in the paleopathology of California are presented with two main
mind: 1) to present a summary of the previously published work in this area
assess the current state of our knowledge of California paleopathology
sent some new examples of skeletal abnormalities gleaned from museum
If the latter reports seem unnecessarily detailed, they are presented as
-te to some small extent the kinds of background knowledge and sources of
that should be utilized before one begins to interpret osseous lesions. The
-intended to burden the reader but to provide additional insights to the
of the material.
: would like to thank the following people who have helped in this series of
staffs of the library systems on the Berkeley, Davis and San Francisco
the University of California; Dr. J. Lawrence Angel, Smithsonian Institution,
ly supplied data and photographs on two of the crania exhibiting enlarged
mna; Drs. Bert Gerow and Theodora Kreps, Anthropology Museum,
versity; Ms. Grace Lee, Department of Anatomy, Stanford University School
* Harry Genant and technical staff, Department of Radiology, UC-San
and the office staff of the Department of Anthropology, UC-Berkeley,
Ms. Toni Cord.
ncial support was received from Faculty Research Grants awarded to one
by the Committee on Research, UC-Berkeley, and is gratefully acknowledged.
would especially like to thank Professor Robert F. Heizer, for first in-
to much of the material (both bibliographic and skeletal), for his editorial
for his continuing support of these studies.
y remaining errors, sins of omission, and final interpretations are those
s alone.
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