osteology

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Experts in fields ranging from fine art, osteology, computer tomology, and craniofacial reconstruction worked together to create the likenesses from two mummies acquired abroad and brought to Baltimore more than a century ago.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 8, 2018

He holds a plastic skull in his hand, quizzing another student, Lauren Glick, for an osteology exam.

From National Geographic • Jul. 29, 2016

He had majored in anthropology and taken a class in osteology, as well as the three-week class in forensics.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2016

P. Willey, a physical anthropologist who specializes in osteology, or the study of bones, who was then at the University of Tennessee, was one of several experts who studied the remains.

From Washington Times • Feb. 9, 2015

The phylogeny of the Salientia; I. The osteology and the thigh musculature; their bearing on classification and phylogeny.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)