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Age estimation of the human skeleton /

"Age Estimation of the Human Skeleton is a needed up-to-date book providing anthropologists and anatomists with a broad spectrum of techniques focused on aging human skeletal remains. It represents the most current reference book devoted entirely to estimating age at death for skeletonized and...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Latham, Krista E. (Editor ), Finnegan, J. Michael (Editor ), Rhine, Stanley (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas Publisher, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Ch. 1. Dental aging techniques: a review
  • ch. 2. The estimation of age at death through the examination of root transparency
  • ch. 3. Age estimation by root dentin transparency of single rooted teeth
  • ch. 4. Age estimation by root dentin transparency of double rooted mandibular molars
  • ch. 5. Age estimation of adult remains from the dentition
  • ch. 6. The nature and sources of error in the estimation of age at death from the skeleton
  • ch. 7. Applications of the human sacrum in age at death estimation
  • ch. 8. Limitations of cartilage ossification as an indicator of age at death
  • ch. 9. Determination of age at death using the acetabulum of the os coxa
  • ch. 10. Estimation of age from fetal remains
  • ch. 11. Revisiting McKern and Stewart (1957): A comparison of pubic symphysis methods at the JPAC-CIL
  • ch. 12. Recent advances in the estimation of age at death from the assessment of immature bone
  • ch. 13. The application of cortical bone histomorphometrics
  • ch. 14. Skeletal aging using frontal bone histomorphometrics
  • ch. 15. Histological age estimation in subadults
  • ch. 16. Multifactorial estimation of age at death from the human skeleton
  • ch. 17. A test of the forensic application of transition analysis with the pubic symphysis
  • Index.