ANT340H5 Lecture 6: Lecture 6.docx
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How subadult research could be interpreted with respect to the osteological paradox. Low, mid, high: how and where subadult research fits. Growth & development: changes over time, role in human evolution, measure of health. Infant mortality as a measure of population health. Individuals who have yet to reach full skeletal maturity. *reading about social vs. skeletal age (for test) 6 year old skeleton: developed from 806 distinctive ossification centres. Chronological age: age in years from date of birth, methods to get as close to chronological age as possible. Ant340-lecture 6: skeletal age and dental age. Growth and fusion of cranial elements: expected stages of development at specific ages. I. e. stages of temporal bone development (petrous, tympanic ring, and squamous are first all separate, and then join in a specific way) Epiphyseal fusion: sequence & timing, sex differences, delay in fusion, prolong growth, once epiphyses are completely fused, all growth stops. Population differences (more influence on eruption than development)
