Recommended Further Reading
These are the most comprehensive books on human osteology and odontology with extensive images of human bones, how they can be identified, what side they are from, and what they tell of the biological profile (i.e., ancestry, sex, age, and stature).
- Bass, W. M. (2005). Human Osteology. A Laboratory and Field Manual, 5th ed. Columbia, MO: Missouri Archaeological Society.
- Scheuer, L.. Black, S. (2004) The Juvenile Skeleton. Amsterdam: Elsevier Academic Press.
- Steele, D. G., Bramblett, C. A. (1988). The Anatomy and Biology of the Human Skeleton. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press.
- White, T. D., Black, M. T., Folkens, P. A. (2102). Human Osteology, 3rd ed. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Useful Weblinks
Comparative anatomy
- There are several great sites for comparative anatomy online. Some, you may have seen in the resources for chapter 2. One of the best sites over all for both osteology and comparative anatomy is eskeletons.org. This site allows you to compare bones from humans and non human primates. The photos are clear and to scale.
- https://www.eskeletons.org/
- The Idaho virtual museum. This site contains digitized and photographed bone specimens, plant specimens artifacts and fossils. All of non-human species.
- https://virtual.imnh.iri.isu.edu/
- BoneID.net is a helpful resource for non-human remains
- http://www.boneid.net/