Photographic Atlas of Human Bioarchaeology from the Osteological Collections of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts

Description

This photographic atlas will give the students of dental medicine and anthropology an insight into the anthropological analysis and enable them to distinguish the human skeletal remains from archaeological sites from more recent skeletal remains which are subject to forensic analyses. Forensic procedures, like archaeological research, include collecting skeletal remains (e.g. mass grave exhumations) therefore both anthropological analysis and dental forensic analysis play a key role in establishing a person’s identity. The following conditions and diseases of the dental system are presented in the atlas: caries, abrasion, alveolar abscess, dental enamel hypoplasia, perimortem teeth fractures and trauma in craniofacial region, tooth wear, complete dental loss and upper jaw resorption due to facies leprosa.