How the skull is built
The human skull in fact starts lift as an intricate curved jigsa of nearly 30 separate pieces, sculpted in cartilage and membrane.During development these gradually turn to bone and grow together to form a solid case that protects the brain, eyes, inner ears and other delicate sense organ the separate bones are eventually knitted together wiggly lines on the skull.From the age ofabout 30 to 40 years, the sutures slowly fade and disappear. This is one way of telling the age of a skull’s original owner.The cranium, or “brainbox”, is made of eight bones. There are 14 in the face, two in each side of the upper jaw, and one in each side of the lower jaw. The skull also encases the smallest bones in the body – the six tiny ossicles of the inner ears