Skeletal age determination based on the os pubis: A comparison of the Acsádi-Nemeskéri and Suchey-Brooks methods

Brooks, Sheilagh T.; Suchey, Judy Myers

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“…Sex was estimated by scoring 23 characteristics outlined in Éry (1992) and Éry et al (1963). Adult age was estimated using degeneration of the pubic symphyseal face (Brooks and Suchey 1990), the sternal ends of ribs (Íșcan et al 1985; Íșcan et al 1984), and cranial suture closure (Meindl and Lovejoy 1985;Nemeskéri et al 1960). In instances of poor preservation, dental attrition scores were used to place individuals within a broad age group (Éry 1992;Huszár and Schranz 1952 estimates too broad for a single category were classified as "adult".…”

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Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary

Gilmour

Gowland

Roberts

et al. 2015

International Journal of Paleopathology

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Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. AbstractIt is hypothesized that men and women living in the border provinces of the Roman Empire may have encountered different physical dangers associated with variation in their occupations and activities. Limb bone trauma data were used to assess sex-based differences in physical hazards and evidence for fracture healing and treatment. Two hundred and ten skeletons were examined from a late 1 st to early 4 th century AD cemetery at Aquincum (Budapest, Hungary). Upper and lower limb bone fracture types, frequencies, distributions, and associated complications were recorded, and gendered patterns in injury risks were explored. Of the 23 fractures identified, both sexes had injuries indicative of falls; males exhibited the only injuries suggestive of higherenergy and more direct forces. Most fractures were well-healed with few complications. The extremity trauma at Aquincum suggests that people buried here experienced less hazardous physical activities than at other Roman provincial sites. The patterns of trauma indicate that "traditional" gender roles were in place, whereby male civilians participated in more physically dangerous activities than females. Additionally, treatment may have been equally accessible to men and women, but certain fracture types proved more challenging to reduce using the techniques available.

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Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary

Gilmour

Gowland

Roberts

et al. 2015

International Journal of Paleopathology

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“…While the age range of adults in archaeological samples is still quite large (18-60 years), growth during this age period is limited when compared to the age categories preceding the adult stage. Estimation of age at death was achieved by combining the results of several different methods: sternal rib end deformation developed by İşcan et al (1984), cranial suture closure developed by Meindl and Lovejoy (1985), pubic symphysis changes developed by Brooks and Suchey (1990), dental attrition ageing published by Maat (2001), and finally the auricular surface ageing method developed by Buckberry and Chamberlain (2002). Estimation of sex was done according to the standards by Buikstra and Ubelaker (1994).…”

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Talking heads: Morphological variation in the human mandible over the last 500 years in the Netherlands

Bosman

Moisik

Dediu

et al. 2017

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A B S T R A C TThe primary aim of this paper is to assess patterns of morphological variation in the mandible to investigate changes during the last 500 years in the Netherlands. Three-dimensional geometric morphometrics is used on data collected from adults from three populations living in the Netherlands during three time-periods. Two of these samples come from Dutch archaeological sites (Alkmaar, 1484-1574, n = 37; and Middenbeemster, 1829-1866, n = 51) and were digitized using a 3D laser scanner. The third is a modern sample obtained from MRI scans of 34 modern Dutch individuals.Differences between mandibles are dominated by size. Significant differences in size are found among samples, with on average, males from Alkmaar having the largest mandibles and females from Middenbeemster having the smallest. The results are possibly linked to a softening of the diet, due to a combination of differences in food types and food processing that occurred between these time-periods. Differences in shape are most noticeable between males from Alkmaar and Middenbeemster. Shape differences between males and females are concentrated in the symphysis and ramus, which is mostly the consequence of sexual dimorphism. The relevance of this research is a better understanding of the anatomical variation of the mandible that can occur over an evolutionarily short time, as well as supporting research that has shown plasticity of the mandibular form related to diet and food processing. This plasticity of form must be taken into account in phylogenetic research and when the mandible is used in sex estimation of skeletons.

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“…When methods based on, for example, the pubic symphysis [51][52][53][54][55][56] and auricular surface [57][58][59][60][61] are considered, it is clear that their mean errors are also high. It seems that age estimation in adults still remains challenging, and that the Lamendin and modified Lamendin techniques are probably on par with other methods used in adult age estimation.…”

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A test of the Lamendin method of age estimation in South African canines

Ackermann

Steyn

2014

Forensic Science International

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Age estimation in unknown adult skeletons remains a considerable problem in forensic anthropology. In 1992, Lamendin and colleagues published a non-destructive method of age estimation on single rooted teeth. With this method, periodontosis and root transparency are judged against root height, and these are then used in regression formulae to estimate age.The aim of this study was to test the accuracy of the Lamendin method on a large sample of canines of South Africans, and if necessary to adapt the formulae for this population. A sample of known sex, age and population group was used. This included 537 upper and lower canines from 498 skulls, and included black males, black females, white males and white females. The age of the individuals ranged from 20 to 90 years. The original formulae gave relatively poor results, and in an attempt to obtain better accuracy the formulae were adapted with the current data. Even after adaptation of the formulae, the highest correlation between estimated age and actual age remained low (R 2 = 0.41), with mean errors ranging between 12 and 15 years. Periodontosis was better correlated with age than root transparency. The accuracy of the method was found to be much lower than what was originally published, but probably reflects biological reality and is on a par with other methods of adult age estimation.2

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Skeletal age determination based on the os pubis: A comparison of the Acsádi-Nemeskéri and Suchey-Brooks methods

Cited by 1,769 publications

References 11 publications

Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary

Gendered Differences in Accidental Trauma to Upper and Lower Limb Bones at Aquincum, Roman Hungary

Talking heads: Morphological variation in the human mandible over the last 500 years in the Netherlands

A test of the Lamendin method of age estimation in South African canines

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