Paleodemography: From archaeology and skeletal age estimation to life in the past

JL Boldsen, GR Milner… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Much of paleodemography, an interdisciplinary field with strong ties to archaeology, among
other disciplines, is oriented toward clarifying the life experiences of past people and why …

An overview of age estimation in forensic anthropology: perspectives and practical considerations

N Márquez-Grant - Annals of human biology, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Context: Information on methods of age estimation in physical anthropology, in particular
with regard to age-at-death from human skeletal remains, is widely available in the literature …

A new forensic collection housed at the University of Coimbra, Portugal: The 21st century identified skeletal collection

MT Ferreira, R Vicente, D Navega, D Gonçalves… - Forensic science …, 2014 - Elsevier
The purpose of this study is to characterize and contextualize the new collection of identified
skeletons housed in the Department of Life Sciences at the University of Coimbra, Portugal …

A modern documented Italian identified skeletal collection of 2127 skeletons: the CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection

C Cattaneo, D Mazzarelli, A Cappella… - Forensic science …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract The CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection is a modern and continuously
growing identified osteological collection of 2127 skeletons under study in the Laboratorio di …

Adult skeletal age-at-death estimation through deep random neural networks: a new method and its computational analysis

D Navega, E Costa, E Cunha - Biology, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Age-at-death is of paramount importance in forensic analysis of skeletal
remains. In addition to sex, stature, and population affinity, it constitutes baseline information …

DXAGE: a new method for age at death estimation based on femoral bone mineral density and artificial neural networks

D Navega, JO Coelho, E Cunha… - Journal of forensic …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Age at death estimation in adult skeletons is hampered, among others, by the unremarkable
correlation of bone estimators with chronological age, implementation of inappropriate …

The issue of age estimation in a modern skeletal population: are even the more modern current aging methods satisfactory for the elderly?

A Cappella, M Cummaudo, E Arrigoni… - Journal of forensic …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The main idea behind age assessment in adults is related to the analysis of the
physiological degeneration of particular skeletal structures with age. The main issues with …

The influence of body size on adult skeletal age estimation methods

CE Merritt - American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Accurate age estimations are essential to archaeological and forensic analyses. However,
reliability for adult skeletal age estimations is poor, especially for individuals over the age of …

Training and interobserver reliability in qualitative scoring of skeletal samples

CA Wilczak, V Mariotti, D Pany-Kucera, S Villotte… - Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
This article reports on inter-and intra-observer reliability testing of the Coimbra method for
fibrocartilaginous entheseal changes and discusses the results in the context of reliability for …

Age estimation of adult human remains from hip bones using advanced methods

A Kotěrová, D Navega, M Štepanovský, Z Buk… - Forensic science …, 2018 - Elsevier
The assessment of age-at-death is an important and challenging part of investigations of
human skeletal remains. The main objective of the present study was to apply different …