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Evidence of a healed compression fracture in a Plio‐Pleistocene hominid talus from Sterkfontein, South Africa
Author(s) -
Fisk G. R.,
Macho G. A.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
international journal of osteoarchaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 60
eISSN - 1099-1212
pISSN - 1047-482X
DOI - 10.1002/oa.1390020408
Subject(s) - plio pleistocene , calcaneus , deformity , anatomy , geology , fracture (geology) , paleontology , compression (physics) , medicine , pleistocene , surgery , materials science , composite material
The object of this communication is to draw attention to the appearance of this fossil talus Stw 363, which carries a densely adherent fragment on its posterosuperior aspect. We have endeavoured to verify that this bony fragment could be the posterior half of the fractured calcaneus resulting from a fall on to the animal's left foot. Furthermore, it is suggested that this animal survived long enough for this fracture to unite by bone to the posterior aspect of the talus in this grossly displaced and unreduced deformity.