Ancient and Modern Bones (IMAGE)

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Ancient and Modern Bones

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These are cross-sections of an Upper Paleolithic, left, and Early Medieval, right, thigh bone, showing the change in bone shape and reduction in strength in the later individual.

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