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Showing 1 to 20 of 56 for “"Age-at-death"”.
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Using diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis to determine age at death
This research took an age-related condition, diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) and used it to create a new technique for estimating the age at death of older human skeletal remains (age ≥40). Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis is a condition characterized spinally by …
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Imputing age at death for the deceased using household relationships
Immeasurable effort has been dedicated to estimating mortality using direct and indirect demographic techniques. However, literature available on methods applied to replacing missing values for non-responses in surveys or censuses so that these methods are implemented using sound data is sparse. …
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Automated human age at death estimation system from long bones histology
Human age estimation at death from bone histology is a frequent and important requirement in forensic anthropology. Usually human age at death is estimated manually from bone histology or morphology. Manual methods of age estimation from bone histology involve three main phases that includes, …
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AGE AT DEATH ESTIMATION FROM THE SACRAL SIDE OF THE SACROILIAC JOINT
This thesis presents a new method of age estimation in adult human skeletal remains based on age related degenerative changes of the sacral side of the sacro iliac joint. It is inspired by the existing method of aging based on age related degenerative changes of the iliac side of the sacro iliac …
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AGE AT DEATH ESTIMATION FROM THE SACRAL SIDE OF THE SACROILIAC JOINT
This thesis presents a new method of age estimation in adult human skeletal remains based on age related degenerative changes of the sacral side of the sacro iliac joint. It is inspired by the existing method of aging based on age related degenerative changes of the iliac side of the sacro iliac …
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Testing of a Portuguese Method for Estimating Skeletal Age at Death in Adults Using the Acetabulum on an American Sample
… of this thesis is to test the accuracy of age estimation using the acetabulum. Methods for determining information from the os coxae are essential tools in archaeology and forensic anthropology. Variables from the ilium, ischium, and pubis have been used to determine sex and estimate age. …
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Testing of a Portuguese Method for Estimating Skeletal Age at Death in Adults Using the Acetabulum on an American Sample
… of this thesis is to test the accuracy of age estimation using the acetabulum. Methods for determining information from the os coxae are essential tools in archaeology and forensic anthropology. Variables from the ilium, ischium, and pubis have been used to determine sex and estimate age. …
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Adult age-at-death estimation using the pulp/tooth area ratio (PAR) method: a South African validation study using periapical radiography and stereomicroscopy
Conventional skeletal age-at-death estimation methods employed for South African adults are deficient, facing several limitations. Dental ageing techniques remain under-researched for the population. In this study, I aimed to evaluate the applicability of the pulp/tooth area ratio (PAR) ageing …
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Demographic Investigation of a Piscataway Creek Ossuary
Skeletal material from an ossuary on Piscataway Creek was analyzed to determine the minimum number of individuals present, and their sex, stature, developmental life stage and age at death. Cultural debris indicated a date of about 1400-1500 A.D. for the burial. At least 281 individuals were …
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An Exploration of Histological Variation in the Human Rib: Applications for Age Estimation Methods in Applied Anthropology
This dissertation consists of three discreet manuscripts intended for publication in forensic and bone biology journals that address issues related to histological age-at-death estimation of the human rib. The overarching sample for the dissertation consists of N=246 individuals from three North …
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The effects of alcohol and drug abuse on the sternal end of the fourth rib
Estimation of skeletal age at death is based on the premise that osseous tissue undergoes predictable and patterned changes through the life of the individual that can be quantified and accurately correlated with skeletal age. The utility of any method of estimating skeletal age at death is …
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Histological age estimation of the midshaft clavicle using a new digital technique.
Histological methods to estimate skeletal age at death, in forensic cases, are an alternative to the more traditional gross morphological methods. Most histological methods utilize counts of bone type within a given field for their estimation. The method presented in this paper uses the percentage …
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Peopling Portland’s Past: A paleodemographic, osteological and funerary investigation of the burial population excavated from the site of St. Andrew’s Church, Portland, UK.
The current project investigated the osteology, funerary archaeology and demography of the multi period site of Portland St. Andrew’s Church, Dorset, UK. The osteology and archaeology of the site were united through a comprehensive analysis of human skeletal remains and the creation of a complete …
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A Biometrical investigation into the relationship between vertebral joint osteophytosis and body proportion biomechanics.
Occupational loading is a significant risk factor for back pain and vertebral joint disease. Although biomechanical principles predict that spinal loading is affected by body proportion, particularly with differences in upper to lower body measurements, these differences have not previously been …
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An experimental investigation, into the effects of thermal alteration on microstructures in mammalian long bones.
… skeletal remains are among the most common categories of material recovered both from archaeological excavations and within forensic contexts. When burnt remains are encountered during a forensic investigation estimating age at death on the remains and creating a biological profile is one of …
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Palaeoepidemiological study of the post-medieval Gloucester 13/83 Skeletal Assemblage.
… study examining the representation of pathological conditions from an 18th-19th Century Gloucester skeletal collection (13/83). This skeletal assemblage contains 82 individuals, including 37 burials from a non-parochial church (Southgate Congregational Church) and 45 burials …
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Juvenile mortality ratios in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England. A contextual discussion of osteoarchaeological evidence for infanticide and child neglect.
… mortality profiles questioning the speculations made by some archaeologists that the under-representation of infants from Anglo-Saxon and medieval burial populations could be due to the practice of infanticide in England during these periods. Morphological and metrical age estimation and …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
… bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information about the remains. A facial reconstruction is presented with a step-by-step illustration to reveal the potential appearance …
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HISTORICAL CEMETERY RESIDENTS UNEARTHED: REANALYSIS OF UMFC64 AND UMFC65
… bioarchaeological analysis. Methods for estimating sex, age at death, ancestry, stature, and pathology/trauma methods are applied in an effort to glean more information about the remains. A facial reconstruction is presented with a step-by-step illustration to reveal the potential appearance …
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