Theya Molleson
The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD.
Plate 1. Some of 69/67A's bone anomalies, both normal variation and degenerative.
1. The teeth are extremely worn especially on the back molars.
2. The sternum is very wide.
3. Osteo-arthrosis of lateral condyles of the left and right tibias.
4. There is severe eburnation of both scapulo-humeral joints of the shoulders.
5. Constriction atrophy of the left and right humeri. Marked depression on the medial side below the humeral neck where the scapula impacted against the shaft of the humerus.
6. The wrists too are greatly affected; the distal ends of both radii are severely eburnated.
7. Radius-ulna with false joint on left radius. 8. Robust metacarpals of left and right thumbs.