Age at death determination by means of femoral frequency of secondary osteons

Autor: G. Alciati, S. Pezzulli, A. Drusini, M. Di Bacco
Rok vydání: 1994
Předmět:
Zdroj: International Journal of Anthropology. 9:329-337
ISSN: 1824-3096
0393-9383
DOI: 10.1007/bf02447576
Popis: A statistical model for the estimation of the age at death is defined and tested to evaluate its performance. It is characterized by the probability of the femoral frequency of secondary osteons for any given age, that we compute by means of 28 scheletons of Italian subjects. In a standard case we obtain good evalutations of the methods, while in practice it can be used according to the objectives of the particular investigation. Moreover other surveys could easily be added to our data in order to obtain a more powerfool tool.
Databáze: OpenAIRE