Page 184. 1. The 2 types of major surface markings that bones have are depression/openings and processes. 2. The skull bone in which metopic sutures are found is within the skull of a new born, that’s one reason why Liu and Hassan were surprised to find metopic sutures in an adult skull. The other reason is because after the age of six or so, the sutures should have disappeared. 3. The delicate skeletal structures that are found inside the nasal cavity that might be missing from an excavated skull would be the perpendicular plate, the vomer and the inferior/middle nasal concha.
Page 191. 1. Hassan can tell the age of the remains of the women and baby by using four main sutures: the coronal