The Photographic Regional Atlas of Bone Disease is intended to serve the needs of a
diverse audience including paleopathologists, physical anthropologists and other …

This broad literature review considers advances in the study of cranial vault modification
with an emphasis on investigations of Andean skeletal remains over the last two decades. I …

Three morphologically distinct populations of Peruvian crania (n= 130) were metrically
analysed to quantify changes resulting from intentional artificial vault deformation. Two of …

Building upon recent studies of settlement patterns and material cultural, this paper focuses
on human body modification preserved in human bone as a complementary means of …

Artificial reshaping of the cranial vault has been practiced by many human groups and
provides a natural experiment in which the relationships of neurocranial, cranial base, and …

Nothing is more central to theories of prehispanic Andean state formation than the
relationship between highland core areas and ecologically‐distinct peripheral regions …

Wormian bones are accessory bones that occur within cranial suture and fontanelles, most
commonly within the posterior sutures. They occur more frequently in disorders that have …

Dynamic orthotic cranioplasty (DOC) was developed to treat asymmetrical head shape of a
nonsynostotic origin, which is defined by the term positional plagiocephaly. These positional …

Artificial cranial deformation is a recognized attribute of many archaeologically recovered
Andean skeletal collections. Ethnohistoric sources document the diversity of forms used to …

An investigation was carried out into the practice of artificial cranial deformation (ACD)
among the Pre‐Columbian inhabitants of northern Chile. Four hundred and fifteen skulls …