The problem of aging human remains and living individuals: a review

E Cunha, E Baccino, L Martrille, F Ramsthaler… - Forensic science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Forensic anthropology is affected by the unavoidable limits concerning difficulties in
standardization of methods and procedures; age estimation is one of the main tasks of …

Cranial suture closure as an age indicator: a review

S Ruengdit, DT Case, P Mahakkanukrauh - Forensic science international, 2020 - Elsevier
Cranial suture closure has been recognized for over a century as a useful trait for age
estimation. Although this indicator has become a standard feature of age assessment …

Transition analysis: A validation study with known‐age modern American skeletons

GR Milner, JL Boldsen - American journal of physical …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Transition Analysis—a recent skeletal age‐estimation procedure (Boldsen et al.:
Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples (2002) 73–106)—is evaluated …

Analysis of Age‐at‐Death Estimation Using Data from a New, Modern Autopsy Sample—Part I: Pubic Bone*,†

KM Hartnett - Journal of forensic sciences, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
This research tests the accuracy of age estimation from the pubic bone. Specimens were
collected from decedents of known age, sex, and race at the Forensic Science Center (FSC) …

A new method for estimating age‐at‐death from the first rib

EA DiGangi, JD Bethard, EH Kimmerle… - American Journal of …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
A new method for estimating adult age-at-death from the first rib was developed as a
modification of the Kunos et al.(Am J Phys Anthropol 110 (1999) 303–323) method. Data …

Proposing a way forward: a review of standardisation in the use of age categories and ageing techniques in osteological analysis (2004–2009)

CG Falys, ME Lewis - International Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
This study assesses the current state of adult skeletal age‐at‐death estimation in biological
anthropology through analysis of data published in recent research articles from three major …

The effect of factors other than age upon skeletal age indicators in the adult

S Mays - Annals of human biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Estimation of adult age from skeletal remains is problematic due to the weak and
variable relationship between age indicators and age. Objectives: To assess the proportion …

Statistical methods to assess the reliability of measurements in the procedures for forensic age estimation

L Ferrante, R Cameriere - International journal of legal medicine, 2009 - Springer
In forensic science, anthropology, and archaeology, several techniques have been
developed to estimate chronological age in both children and adults, using the relationship …

The biological profile of unidentified human remains in a forensic context

D Austin, RE King - Academic forensic pathology, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Estimation of the biological profile of unidentified human remains is a critical component of
an anthropologic evaluation of unidentified human remains. The profile is used to search for …

Evaluation of the Suchey–Brooks method of age estimation in an Australian subpopulation using computed tomography of the pubic symphyseal surface

N Lottering, DM MacGregor, M Meredith… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the prominent use of the Suchey–Brooks (S–B) method of age estimation in forensic
anthropological practice, it is subject to intrinsic limitations, with reports of differential …