期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
卷 140, 期 3, 页码 583-588出版社
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21136
关键词
age determination; osteology; dental anthropology; histology; taphonomy; tooth cementum annulations
资金
- Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Connaught New Staff Matching Grant, University of Toronto
The use of tooth cementum annulations determination has been deemed promising, exhibiting high correlations with chronological age. Despite its apparent potential, to date, the tooth cementum annulations method has been used rarely for estimating ages in archaeological populations. Here we examine the readability of cementum annulations and the consistency of age estimates using a sample of 116 adults from the Iron Gates Gorge Mesolithic/Neo-lithic series Our examination of the method pointed to several sources of error that call into question the use of this method for estimating the chronological ages of archaeologically derived dental samples. The poor performance of the method in our analysis might be explained by taphonomic influences, including the effect of chemical and biological agents on dental microstructures. Am J Phys Anthropol 140:583-588, 2009. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc
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