I know today has been a little light on posts (I've been working on a lab report and on a presentation I'll be giving on "Evolution Sunday"), but I thought I would write up something. Given that I'm taking a course in Human Osteology, osteometric points on the skull are important to know and are essential to making measurements, so I'm pondering putting up a brief description of an osteometric point every once in a while.
Today's point is Bregma (b), a point right along the midline on the outside of the skull where the coronal and sagittal sutures intersect. The bones at this intersection are the frontal and parietal bones (you can see for yourself here).
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Cool. What textbook are you using?
Yeah, I might just keep it up. It'll help me remember the material better, anyway. We're using White's Human Osteology 2nd edition.
I have the first edition of White, it's pretty good. We used it in Advanced Human Osteology in conjunction with Gray's Anatomy. I haven't seen the second copy, yet, but from what I've heard it's even better.
I particularly like glabella and opistocranion, the most anterior and posterior parts of the cranial vault (but not including the external occipital protuberance), respectively. I like the 2nd edition of White's Human Osteology, but the Standards by Buikstra and Ubelaker is awesome, too. Now this is a topic I can talk about!