Incidencia de huesos suturales en cráneos de changos del Norte de Chile, Región de Antofagasta

Abstract

The presence of sutural bones is a product of alterations in the formation of the wide bones of the skull, in addition to ethnic variables, being of interest in human anatomy, physical anthropology, imagenology and legal medicine. With the purpose of contributing to the knowledge of the sutural bones and its incidence in original individuals, its presence in 23 skulls of changos of the North of Chile was analyzed that are classified and that they belong to the collection of the Regional Museum of Antofagasta. The presence of sutural bones in 43.5% of the cases with a rank from 1 to 9 was verified, being bilateral in 60%. The bones in the left side (64,9%) and in brachicephalic skulls predominate (IC=96,8). The lambda or interparietal bone was identified in 13.04% of the skulls. The collected data correspond with the described ones by Literature.