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Ectocranial suture closure: a revised method for the determination of skeletal age at death based on the lateral-anterior sutures
Richard S. Meindl,C O Lovejoy +1 more
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It is concluded that suture closure can provide valuable estimates of age-at-death in both archaeological and forensic contexts when used in conjunction with other skeletal age indicators.Abstract:
A new method for estimation of age-at-death based on the degree of suture closure is presented. The method employs simple ectocranial scoring of specific sites on the external table. Composite scores for two groups of sutures, lateral-anterior and vault systems, which are used to provide estimates of age-at-death, have been developed from a sample of 236 crania from the Hamann-Todd Collection. A variety of tests show that the lateral-anterior sutures are superior to the sutures of the vault, that ectocranial is superior to endocranial observation, and that age estimates are independent of race and sex. It is concluded that suture closure can provide valuable estimates of age-at-death in both archaeological and forensic contexts when used in conjunction with other skeletal age indicators.read more
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Multifactorial determination of skeletal age at death: A method and blind tests of its accuracy
TL;DR: This represents the first truly blind test of an age-at-death indicator or system, as the test populations were independent of the system(s) being tested, and the age, sex, and ethnogeographic origin of the individuals being assessed were completely unknown until the tests were completed.
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The problem of aging human remains and living individuals: a review.
Eugénia Cunha,Eric Baccino,Laurent Martrille,Frank Ramsthaler,Jose Luis Prieto,Y. Schuliar,Niels Lynnerup,Cristina Cattaneo +7 more
TL;DR: This review aims at exposing the experience of the authors working in the FASE subsection of IALM (International Academy of Legal Medicine) in the field of age estimation both on the dead and the living, at highlighting advantages and limits of each method, and suggesting practical solutions concerning the age estimation process for adults and subadults, dead and living, and pedopornographic material.
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Natural history of Homo erectus.
TL;DR: It is argued that H. erectus is a hominin, notable for its increased body size, that originates in the latest Pliocene/earliest Pleistocene of Africa and quickly disperses into Western and Eastern Asia and is also an increasingly derived homin in with several regional morphs sustained by intermittent isolation, particularly in Southeast Asia.
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Application of osteology to forensic medicine
TL;DR: Determination of ethnic identity is the least reliable and is hampered by lack of data on many populations, so reliability and accuracy in the forensic context is questioned.
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Enamel peptides reveal the sex of the Late Antique ‘Lovers of Modena’
Federico Lugli,Federico Lugli,Giulia Di Rocco,Antonino Vazzana,Filippo Genovese,Diego Pinetti,Elisabetta Cilli,Maria Cristina Carile,Sara Silvestrini,Gaia Gabanini,Simona Arrighi,Laura Buti,Eugenio Bortolini,Anna Cipriani,Anna Cipriani,Carla Figus,Giulia Marciani,Gregorio Oxilia,Matteo Romandini,Rita Sorrentino,Marco Sola,Stefano Benazzi,Stefano Benazzi +22 more
TL;DR: The dimorphic features of the amelogenin protein were exploited to determine the sex of the so-called ‘Lovers of Modena’, two Late Antique individuals whose skeletons were intentionally buried hand-in-hand and were compared to 14 modern and archaeological control samples, confirming the reliability of the ion chromatogram method for sex determination.
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Multifactorial determination of skeletal age at death: A method and blind tests of its accuracy
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