Remodeling Forensic Skeletal Age: Modern Applications and New Research Directions

ISBN-13: 9780128243701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021

Bridget F. B. Algee‐hewitt; Jieun Kim

Spis treści

A - Longstanding problems of "the population”

1. Using data from the US Korean War Dead and the Terry Collection to demonstrate problems of the common "overlap methods” Lyle W. Konigsberg

2. Testing for differences in senescence using score data to understand the effects of reference sample choices Susan R. Frankenberg

B - Aging across the ages

3. Subadult age estimation variables: Exploring their varying roles across ontogeny K.E. Stull, L.K. Corron, and M.H. Price

4. Aging the elderly: Does the skull tell us something about age at death? Flavia Teixeira and Eugenia Cunha

5. Population variation in diaphyseal growth and age estimation of juvenile skeletal remains H.F.V. Cardoso, L. Spake, L. Ri´os, and J. Albanese

6. Great expectations: The rise, fall, and resurrection of adult skeletal age estimation George R. Milner, Jesper L. Boldsen, Stephen D. Ousley, Sara M. Getz, Svenja Weise, and Peter Tarp

C - Computational methods come of age

7. A volumetric approach to age estimation informed by voxel selection: Application to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis Nicolene Lottering, Mark D. Barry, Laura S. Gregory, Donna M. MacGregor, and Clair L. Alston-Knox

8. The consecutive inference of ancestry and age from shape measures of the pubic symphysis Bridget FB Algee-Hewitt and Jieun Kim

D - Classic indicators rejuvenated

9. The fallacy of forensic age estimation from morphometric quantifications of the pubic symphysis Fred L. Bookstein and Guillermo Bravo Morante

10. An application of the Bayesian San-Milla´n-Rissech acetabular aging method to an African American sample: Preliminary results Marta San-Millan