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This image collection is a sample, or vignette of the paleopathology found in the Crow Creek Massacre excavation in Chamberlin, South Dakota.

A nearly 400 image database with brief text descriptions of paleopathology from the region, with many more specimens from the Crow Creek Massacre. By Dr. John B. Gregg and Pauline Gregg: Acknowledgements: HTML Markup: Ali Zimmerman, Image Archiving: Donovan DeJong, Dr. Larry Tieszen and the Augustana College Department of Biology (Sioux Falls).

This group of human skeletons was heterogeneous in time, culture, and location. But it had common denominators in that it was limited to the cultures and people who inhabited the geographic boundaries of South Dakota. The skeletons were part of the W.H. Over Collection of the University of South Dakota and at one time were protected in the W.H. Over Museum before reburial. Acknowledgements: Image Archiving -- Donovan DeJong, Augustana College; Image Editing and HTML -- Lommen Health Sciences Library, University of South Dakota School of Medicine.

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