SKULLS, SKELETONS, & SKELETAL ARTICULATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

SKULLS, SKELETONS, & SKELETAL ARTICULATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Skulls & Skeletons

Skeletal Articulation


SKULLS & SKELETONS

WORLD WIDE WEB

Animal Skull Collection

http://www.d91.k12.id.us/www/skyline/teachers/robertsd/skulls.htm

An extensive collection of skulls and skeletons collected by a high school biology/zoology teacher and his students over many years.

 

The Big Story on Bones

http://kidshealth.org/kid/body/bones_noSW.html

The Big Story on bones, for kids.  Simple and informative.

 

The eSkeletons Project

http://www.eskeletons.org/

Website featuring the bones of a human, gorilla and baboon , and information about them.

 

Fossil Vertebrates at the Burke Museum

http://depts.washington.edu/vertp/

An on-line collection (catalogs and images) of mammals, birds, dinosaurs, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes.

 

Glossary of Skeletal Anatomy

http://www.bioanth.org/biomed/anatomy.htm

The glossary defines terms used to describe the skeleton.

 

Human Skeletons and Society in Prehistoric Italy

http://www.arch.soton.ac.uk/Research/Italy/

Human skeletons and society in prehistoric Italy.

 

Introductory Anatomy: Bones

http://www.leeds.ac.uk/chb/lectures/anatomy3.html

More than you ever thought you wanted to know about bones.

 

The Mammal Skeleton

http://www.earthlife.net/mammals/skeleton.html

The skeletal system of mammals is examined in this page that includes images.

 

Skeletal System

http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html

Move your mouse over the skeleton to learn the names of the bones.

 

Skeletons and Bones at Enchanted Learning: Rhymes, Crafts, Coloring Printouts, and a Quiz

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/themes/skeleton.shtml

Skeletons, bones and related activities for age K-3 children.

 

Skeletons & Skulls

http://www.hitchams.suffolk.sch.uk/skeletons/index.htm

A small selection of skulls provided by the Ipswich Borough Council Museums and Galleries.

 

Trissaic Skulls

http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~polsen/nbcp/triassicbones.html

Announcement and pictures of four skulls of reptiles that lived about 200 million years ago that recently were found in Pennsylvania.

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BOOKS

Bass, William M. Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual of the Human Skeleton. Columbia, MO: Missouri Archaeological Society, 1971. Main GN70 .B37 1971.

 

Brown, C. H. Structural Materials in Animals. New York, NY:  Wiley, 1975.  IZ&G QL799 .B76 1975.

 

Cohen, Alan and Dale Serjeantson. A Manual for the Identification of Bird Bones from Archaeological Sites. London: Archetype Publications, 1996. M&O CC79.5.A5 C65 1996.

 

De Beer, Gavin R. The Development of the Vertebrate Skull. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1985. M&O QL822 .D35 1985.

 

Gilbert, B. Miles. Mammalian Osteology. Laramie, WY: B.M. Gilbert, c1980. M&O REF CC76.5 .A5 G5 1980.

 

Gregory, William K. Fish Skulls: A Study of the Evolution of Natural Mechanisms. Laurel, FL: Eric Lundberg, 1959. Ichthy QL639 .G7 1959.

 

Hanken, James and Brian K. Hall. The Skull. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993. Main  QL822 .S58 1993   

 

Howells, W. W. Who's Who in Skulls: Ethnic Identification of Crania from Measurements. Cambridge, MA: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University, 1995. Main GN71 .H68 1995.

 

Jones, J. Knox. Illustrated Key to Skulls of Genera of North American Land Mammals. Lubbock, TX: Texas Tech University Press, c1992. M&O QL715 .J66 1992.

 

Katzenberg, M. Anne and Shelley R. Saunders. Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton.  New York, NY:  Wiley, c2000.  Main GN70 .B55 2000.

 

Lahr, Marta Mirazón. The Evolution of Modern Human Diversity: A Study of Cranial Variation. Cambridge, MA;  New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1996. Main GN71 .L35 1996.

 

Larsen, Clark Spencer. Skeletons in Our Closet: Revealing Our Past Through Bioarchaeology. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, c2000. Main CC77.B8 L375 2000.

 

Manning, T. H. Variations in the Skull of the Bearded Seal, Erignathus barbatus (Erxleben). [Fairbanks: AK: University of Alaska, 1974]. Main Serials QH105.A4 U557 no.16.

 

Norell, Mark and Peter J. Makovicky. Important Features of the Dromaeosaur Skeleton: Information from a New Specimen. New York: American Museum of Natural History, c1997. Main Serials QH1 .A5 A16 no.3215.

 

Orr, Robert Thomas, Jacqueline Schonewald and Karl W. Kenyon. “The California Sea Lion: Skull Growth and a Comparison of Two Populations.” Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, ser. 4, v. 37, #11, 1969-1970. REF CAS Pubs Q11 .C25.

 

Salles, Leandro O. Felid Phylogenetics: Extant Taxa and Skull Morphology (Felidae, Aeluroidea). New York, NY: American Museum of Natural History, c1992. Main Serials QH1.A5 A16 no.3047.

 

Smit van Dort, M. Skin, Skull, and Skeleton Characters of Mouse Deer (Mammalia, Tragulidae), with Keys to the Species. [Amsterdam]: The Museum, 1989. Main Serials QL1 .A47 v.12:5.

 

Thomason, Jeff, ed. Functional Morphology in Vertebrate Paleontology. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995. Main QE841 .F86 1995.

 

Vertebrate Paleontological Techniques. Cambridge; New York, NY, USA: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Main QE841.V388 1994.

 

Wells, Morris Miller. The Collection and Preservation of Animal Forms. Chicago: General Biological Supply House, c1932. Main QL61 .W45 1932.

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CHILDREN’S BOOKS

Diccionario Visual Altea de los Animales. Madrid: Altea, 1992. Pub Juv QL806.5 .V5718 1992.

 

Moss, Jeffrey. Bone Poems. New York: Workman Pub., c1997. Pub Juv QE765 .M67 1997.

 

Parker, Steve. The Body and How it Works. New York: DK Publishing, 1998, c1987. Pub Juv QM27 .P365 1998.

 

Parker, Steve. Esqueletos. Madrid: Altea, c1990. Pub Juv QL821 .P218 1990.

 

Parker, Steve. Eye Witness Books: Skeleton. New York: Knopf, 1988. Pub Juv QL821 .P2 1988.

 

Kahney, Regina. The Glow-in-the-Dark Book of Animal Skeletons. New York: Random House, c1992. Pub.Juv. QL821.K28 1992.

 

VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Janice VanCleave's Play and Find Out About the Human Body: Easy Experiments for Young Children. New York: Wiley, c1998. Pub Juv QP37 .V364 1998.

 

The Visual Dictionary of the Skeleton. London;  New York, NY: Dorling Kindersley; Boston, MA: Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, Inc., 1995. Pub Juv QL821 .V57 1995.

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MULTIMEDIA & VIDEO

In Search of Human Origins. Boston, MA: WGBH Educational Foundation, c1994. Pub AV&M GN283.25 .I5 1994.

 

The Ultimate 3D Skeleton. New York, NY: DK Multimedia, c1996. Pub AV&M QM101 .U48 1996.

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SKELETAL ARTICULATION

WORLD WIDE WEB

Articulation Page

http://vetgate.ac.uk/whatsnew/detail/3012306.html

The site provides guidelines for constructing a posed or articulated skeleton, with detailed instructions covering all aspects of the articulation process.

 

Cat Dissection Online

http://www.bhs.berkeley.k12.ca.us/departments/Science/anatomy/cat/index.html

From the Human Anatomy class of Berkeley High, uses cats to learn about the anatomy of mammals.

 

Mounting Frog Skeleton

http://www.schoolnet.edu.mo:80/general/biology/temp/extra/frogske.html

Materials and procedure for mounting a frog skeleton.

 

Virtual Frog Dissection Kit

http://www-itg.lbl.gov/vfrog

Interactive program, science education related to virtual interactive frog dissection kit. (Not really articulation related)

 

Teaching Tool for Articulation

http:// www.exeter.edu/communications/pr/whale.html

Site of the Phillips Exeter Academy, explaining recovery, preparation and articulation process of a Humpback whale.

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ARTICULATION BOOKS

Aliki. Digging Up Dinosaurs. New York: T.Y. Crowell, 1988. Public Juv. QE 862.D5 A34 1988.

 

Anderson, Rudolph Martin. Methods of Collecting and Preserving Vertebrate Animals. Ottawa: Dept. of the Secretary of State, 1960. M&O QL 67.A43 1960.

 

Brothwell, Don R. Digging Up Bones. London: Trustees of the British Museum, 1963. Ref. GN70 .B76 1963.

 

Chapin, James Paul. The Preparation of Birds for Study: Instructions for the Preparation of Bird Skins and Skeletons for Study and Future Mounting, 3rd Edition. New York: American Museum of Natural History, 1940. M&O QL677.7 .C5 1940.

 

Collection and Preservation of Animals. Calcutta: Zoological Survey of India, 1990. Main QL61 .C64 1990.

 

Collection Forum. [Ottawa]: Society for Scientific Collections, [1985]-. Main Serials QH61 .C62.

 

Cornwall, Ian Wolfram. Bones for the Archaeologist. London: Phoenix House, 1968. IZ&G QL 821. C6 1968.

 

Davidson, Alvin. Mammalian Anatomy With Special Reference to the Cat. Philadelphia, PA: P. Blakiston's Sons and Co., Inc., c1937. Main QL 739. D3 1937.

 

Duckworth, W. Donald., Hugh H. Genoways, and Carolyn L. Rose. Preserving Natural Science Collections: Chronicle of our Environmental Heritage. Washington, D.C.: National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property, c1993. Main QH61 .D82 1993.

 

Hangay, George and Michael Dingley. Biological Museum Methods. Sydney; Orlando: Academic Press, c1985. Main QH61. H36 1985.

 

Hildebrand, Milton. Anatomical Preparations. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1968. M&O Ref. QL814 .H5 1968a.

 

Knudsen, Jens W. Biological Techniques: Collecting, Preserving, and Illustrating Plants and Animals. New York: Harper & Row, c1966. Main QH318.5 .K68 1966.

 

Knudsen, Jens W. Collecting and Preserving Plants and Animals. New York: Harper and Row, c1972. Main REF QH61 .K67 1972

 

Leach, William James. Functional Anatomy of the Mammal: A Guide to the Dissection of the Cat and an Introduction to the Structural and Functional Relationship Between the Cat and Man. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1946. Main QL739 .L4 1946.

 

Stansfield, Geoff , John Mathias, and Gordon Reid. Manual of Natural History Curatorship. London: HMSO, c1994. Main QH70 .A1 M36 1994.

 

Miller, E. H., ed. Museum Collections: Their Roles and Future in Biological Research. [Victoria, B.C.]: British Columbia Provincial Museum, 1985. Main QH70 .A1 M87 1985.

 

Nagorsen, David W. and R. L. Peterson. Mammal Collector's Manual: A Guide for Collecting, Documenting, and Preparing Mammal Specimens for Scientific Research. Toronto: Royal Ontario Museum, 1980. Main QL708.4 .N34 1980

 

Rose, Carolyn L., Catharine A. Hawks, and Hugh H. Genoways, eds. Storage of Natural History Collections. Washington, D.C.: Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 1995. Main QH61 .S75 1995.

 

Wells, Morris Miller. The Collection and Preservation of Animal Forms. Chicago, IL: General Biological Supply House, c1932. Main QL61 .W45 1932.

 

Williams, Stephen L., René Laubach, and Hugh H. Genoways. A Guide to the Management of Recent Mammal Collections. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 1977. M&O QL708.4 .W45 1977.

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All materials above with a call number beginning Biodiv, Biodiv Juv, Pub, or Pub Juv are available for loan to Academy members.


 

 

 

 

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