Using Bone Histology to Identify Stillborn Infants in the Archaeological Record

Pages: 193 - 209
Published: Oct 26, 2019
Abstract
Various osteological techniques can be used to assess the developmental age of an infant skeleton, but it is more difficult to discern whether an infant had died before or after birth. Histological analysis of bone microstructure to look for microbial tunnelling (bioerosion) by putrefactive gut bacteria may represent a novel method of determining whether an archaeological infant had been a live birth. Gut bacteria spread around the body in the...
Paper Details
Title
Using Bone Histology to Identify Stillborn Infants in the Archaeological Record
Published Date
Oct 26, 2019
Pages
193 - 209
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