Bone, the Frame of Human Classification: The Core of Anthropology

Abstract

Osteology of course is the scientific study of bones, practiced by osteologists, a subdiscipline of anatomy, anthropology, and archaeology. It is a detailed study of the structure of bones, skeletal elements, teeth, microbone morphology, function, disease, pathology, the process of ossification (from cartilaginous molds), the resistance and hardness of bones (biophysics).1 Osteological approaches are frequently applied to investigations in physical anthropology.