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Bone Broke by Jess Beck is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.
Tag Archives: human bone
Wolff’s Law
Ever heard the expression “use it or lose it”? That pithy phrase encapsulates Wolff’s law, an anatomical rule that describes how bone grows and changes over time. The law was developed by German surgeon Julius Wolff, whose name you will now always remember … Continue reading
Posted in Bioarchaeology, Bioarchaeology Vocab, Osteology
Tagged Avengers, Captain America, human bone, Mjölnir, osteoblasts, osteology, Thor, Wolff's law, wolves
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Bone Quiz 18
It is only Monday and I’m already having one of those weeks where making any progress is a Sisyphean slog – none of my data meet test assumptions, I can’t figure out how to do my taxes, and I’ve thrown in the … Continue reading
Posted in Bone Quiz, Osteology
Tagged anthropology, archaeology, bioarchaeology, Bone Quiz, human bone, Human Osteology
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