bone modification

"As I already said," the doctor told her, "there's always a degree of discomfort involved with bone modifications.

This will be described in more detail in Chapter 3 on bone modifications produced by predators.

Several categories of bone modification have been considered:

These data will be discussed further in Chapters 3 and 4 in the descriptions of the bone modifications produced by predators.

Needless to say, this gives rise to considerable confusion, for it is not possible to distinguish the results of scavenging from predation on the bone modifications alone.

A number of experiments on bone modification in soil have been initiated, but they have only been running for five years and so far there is no good evidence of any change.

Toe-first landing, usually seen as a consequence of navicular disease, may actually be a cause or at least a contributing factor to the onset of tendon inflammation and bone modifications.

Analysis of postcranial and cranial remains of humans and animals from the Neolithic, along with detailed bone modification studies have shown that cannibalism was also prevalent among prehistoric humans.

The digestive enzymes, however, do not appear to be the main agents producing bone modification, and it is the level of acidity combined with the length of time the food is in the stomach that are the main determining factors.

There are, however, a number of situations that produce further modification of the surface of the bone at this third stage of bone modification (Fig. 1.2), and it is common for bones to be modified by one or more of these processes.