For example, one of the cranial sutures on the skull had already fused together, which usually does not happen until a person has surpassed the age of 65. Since the cranial suture had closed early ...

Moazen noted that a major contribution of this study is that it advances our knowledge about the impact of external forces on the structure of cranial sutures and the potential healing properties of ...

[3] Figure 1 illustrates the boney anatomy of the normal skull sutures and fontanelles. The newborn infant's skull is incompletely ossified and the cranial sutures are normally open at birth ...

Look for the sagittal suture – the squiggly line that runs the length of the skull – and note whether is it's completely fused. If it is, the remains are likely to be of someone older than 35.

1), is the largest, with a cranial capacity of approximately 1,200 c.c. and with its coronal and sagittal sutures partly fused. The second skull (Skull II of Locus L, Fig. 2) is the smallest of ...