Contribution to research of methods for rapid positional siding of foot bones

Zoran, Obradović, Željko, Karan, Dušan, Šuščević, Ilija, Ramić, Saša, Dragić, Baroš

Glasnik Antropološkog društva Srbije

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342

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1820-7936

https://scindeks.ceon.rs/article.aspx?query=ISSID%26and%266083&page=0&so...

2008-2021/11/01/12:58:20

In everyday anthropological work when recording the exhumed bones, it is usually easy to determine if the bone belongs to left/right body side, assuming the adequate knowledge of osteology. Some confusion may appear when dealing with foot and hand bones. The main reasons for this are small dimensions of those bones and numerous anatomical facets that look alike. If the foot bones were carefully collected in the field it becomes easy to recognize them, for the majority of those bones are characteristic enough, especially tarsal and metatarsal ones, so it is impossible to confuse one for another. The intermediate and lateral cuneiform bones may be exception to this. Positional siding of foot bones is more demanding task than their recognition. In anatomy teaching there is a need to present this knowledge to students in the simplest way. In this article the authors present special rapid methods for easy positional siding of foot bones. The initial, strictly defined position to put foot bones into is determined, as well as anatomic characteristics that clearly show the siding of the each bone. .