Trephining in Mexico

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Description: 

Three skeletons were unearthed in Mexico, each showing evidence of trephining. Good photos and a graphic illustration accompany the text. [A part of this paper was read before the American Association for the Advancement of Science at its 1897 meeting in Detroit and before the British Association for the Advancement at its 1897 meeting in Toronto.]

People: 
Mexican Indian
Protocol: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center Public Access
Community: 
UNM Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center
Category: 
Anatomy, Death, Surgery
Original Date: 
1897
Creator: 
Lumholtz, C., Hrdlicka, A
Language: 
English
Rights: 
This item is in the Public Domain
Source: 
Lumholtz, C; Hrdlicka, A. Trephining in Mexico. The American Anthropologist 1897;10:389-96.
Identifier: 
9900364
Subject: 
Burial, Skull, Trephining
Type: 
Monograph