Trephination References

Fletcher, Robert M.R.C.S. Eng.
1882
On prehistoric trephining and cranial amulets.
in Contributions to North American Ethnology Volume V
Department of the Interior
U. S. Geographical and Geological Survey of the Rockey Mountain Region
Government Printing Office

Oakley, F. P., Dr., F.B.A.,
Brooke, Winifred M. A.,
Akester, A. Roger,
Brothwell, D. R.
1959
Contributions on trepanning or trephination in ancient and modern times.
Man A Monthly Record of Anthropological Science
June 1959 Vol. LIX
Article 133
Pp 93-96

The following references are courtesy of
Alice C. Gorman, Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology
University of New England, Armidale NSW

Bold type represent resources that I have actually been able to locate in a library.

Broca, P.  
1876  
Sur l'age des sujets a la trepanation chirugicale Neolithiques.  
Bulletins de la Societe d'Anthropologie de Paris 
11:572

Crump, H.J.  
1901  
Trephining in the South Seas.  
Journal of the Anthropological Institute 
31:167-173

Daland, J.  
1935  
Depressed fracture and trephinning of the skull by the Incas of Peru.  
Annals of Medical History 
7:550-558

Guiard, E.  
1930  
La trepanation cranienne chez les Neolithiques et chez les primitifs modernes.  Masson et Cie, Paris

Hrdlicka, A.  
1939  
Trepanation among prehistoric people, especially in America.  
Ciba Symposium 
1:170-177

Ortner, Donald J. and Putschar, Walter G.J.  
1985  
Identification of pathological conditions in human skeletal remains.
Smithsonian Istitution Press, Washington

Parry, T.W.  
1931  
Neolithic man and penetration of the human skull.
Lancet 
2:1388-1390

Parry, T.W.  
1936  
Three skulls from Palestine showing two types of primitive surgical holing, being the first skulls exhibiting this phenomenon that have been discovered on the mainland of Asia.  
Man
36-170-171

Romero, J.  
Dental mutilation, trephination and cranial deformation.  
In T.D. Stewart (ed) Handbook of Middle American Indians:  
Physical Anthropology.  
9:50-57

Ruffer, M.A.  
1918  
Studies in palaeopathology: some recent researches on prehistoric trephining.
Journal of Pathology and Bacteriology 
22:90-104

Stewart, T.D.  
1950  
Deformity, trephining and mutilation in South American Indian skeletal remains.
In J.H. Steward, (ed), Handbook of South American Indians.  
Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 
143(6):43-48

The following references are courtesy of
John Verano, Tulane Department of Anthropology

Bold type represent resources that I have actually been able to locate in a library.

Allison, Marvin J. and Alejandro Pezzia
1976
Treatment of head wounds in pre-columbian and colonial peru.
Medical College of Virginia Quarterly 
12(2):74-79

Bennike, P.
1985
Palaeopathology of Danish skeletons, a comparative study of demography, disease, and injury.
Copenhagen: Akademisk Forlag.

Furnas, David W., Sheikh, M.A., van den Hombergh, P., Froeling, F., and I. M. Nunda
1985
Traditional craniotomies of the Kisii tribe of Kenya.
Annals of Plastic Surgery 
15(6):538-556

Janssens, P. A.
1970
Palaeopathology: diseases and injuries of prehistoric man.
London: John Baker Ltd.

Lisowski, F. P.
1967
Prehistoric and early historic trepanation.
in Diseases in Antiquity. Donald R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, eds.
pp 651-672.
Springfield, Illionois: Charles C. Thomas.

Margetts, E. L.
1967
Trepanation of the skull by the medicine-men of primitive cultures, with particular reference to present-day native East African practice.
In Diseases in Antiquity. Donald R. Brothwell and A. T. Sandison, eds.
pp 673-701.
Springfield, Illionois: Charles C. Thomas.

Piggot, S.
1940
A trepanned skull of the Beaker period.
from Dorset and the practice of trepanning in prehistoric Europe.
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 
6(3):112-132

Stewart, T. Dale
1957
Stone age skull surgery: a general review, with emphasis on the new world.
Annual report of the Smithsonian Institution 
1957: 469-491

Tyson, Rose A. and E. S. Dyer Alcauskas eds.
1980
Catalogue of the Hrdlicka paleopathology collection.
San Diego California: San Diego Museum of Man.

Walker, A. E.
1951
A history of neurological surgery.
Baltimore, Maryland: Williams and Wilkins

Wilkinson, Richard G.
1975
Techniques of ancient skull surgery.
Natural History 
84(8): 94-101

Wilkinson, Richard G.
1975
Trephination by drilling in ancient Mexico.
Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine 
51(7):838-850

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