A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NINE CLINICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND ONE FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF KELLIS 2 CEMETERY IN DAKHLEH OASIS, EGYPT STEVIE MATHEWS Diagnosing Anencephaly in Archaeology:
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A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF NINE CLINICAL SPECIMENS FROM THE SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY, AND ONE
FROM THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE OF KELLIS 2 CEMETERY IN DAKHLEH OASIS, EGYPT
STEVIE MATHEWS
Diagnosing Anencephaly in Archaeology:
Disclaimer
This presentation includes graphic photographs of deceased infants with neural
tube defects.
Introduction
Maps are a courtesy of Lana Willams and Sandra Wheeler, University of Western Ontario. Burial photo is courtesy of Peter Sheldrick.
Source: Fields HW., Metzner L., Garol JD., and Kokich VG. 1978. The Craniofacial Skeleton in Anencephalic Human Fetuses I. Cranial Floor. Teratology. 17.
Source: http://www.francecasts.com/casts/humans/pathology_and_anomolies/Source: Garol JD., Fields HW., Metzner L., and Kokich VG. 1978. The Craniofacial Skeleton in Anencephalic Human Fetuses I. Cranial Floor. Teratology. 17.
Cranial Base
Cranial Floor
Skeletal Material at the Smithsonian
Anencephaly in Archaeology
Original Source: Geoffroy Saint-Hillaire E. 1826. Note about an Egyptian monster found in the ruins of Thebes, in Egypt, by M. Passalascqua. Bulletin des Sciences Medicales VII: 105-108.