ANTHROP 3FA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Menopause, Osteoporosis, Osteon
27 Feb 2016
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Age-at-death is part of the biological pro le used to narrow the list of potential missing person. Age estimation is a transformative process (anthropologist must translate the descriptive skeletal age indicator into a chronological age); this process introduces error and results in wide age intervals that are accurate but not precise (i. e. decades for adults) Sex and ancestry knowledge of the individual is considered and standards of age used that are based on the population of the skeletal material. Childhood: skeleton changes as aa function of growth and development structures mineralize, increase in size and model their shape to achieve mature adult form; in uenced by genetic and intrinsic factors. Skeletal age can be considered juvenile (subadult) (those ages during growth and development process including the embryonic, fetal, infant, child and adolescent periods) and adult (ages occurring during the mature, degenerative stage of skeletal change) Skeleton is considered complete when all permanent teeth have erupted and all epiphyses have fused.
