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Quick Tips: How To Estimate The Chronological Age Of A Human Skeleton – The Basics.

Estimation of age-at-death involves observing morphological features in the skeletal remains, comparing the information with changes recorded for recent populations of known age, and then estimating any...

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Amid the deadly chaos that has erupted in Egypt, the country’s cultural heritage took a hit last week when looters ransacked the archaeological museum in the town of Mallawi.

Located about 190 miles (300 kilometers) south of Cairo, the museum was opened in 1963 to showcase the finds from...

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Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival XXXI Source: http://bit.ly/16yH8Lu All your Roman bioarch news for the month of July, with quite a lot of finds coming from England this month…Finds and Features1 July - Roman Shrine Found at Rutland Water Nature Reserve (BBC News). A Roman-era shrine found in Rutland, England, dating to about 100 AD included the burial of a middle-aged man in the center along with possible sacrificial cattle and sheep. (image)Shrine burial from Rutland, England (BBC)July - CSI: Italian Renaissance (Smithsonian Magazine). This article profiles the work of Gino Fornaciari.  His work is largely on Medieval Italian remains, but the entire………. Read More

Read and find more great archaeology blogs at: Archaeology Blog Project

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1st Picture: Left: A skeleton showing the position of the different epiphyseal elements. Right: A graph displaying the timing of fusion of epiphyses for various for various human osteological elements. The grey horizontal bars depict the period of time, in ages, when the fusion is occurring. 

2nd Picture: Different stages of epiphysis fusion of human tibias. Ages left to right: Newborn, 1.6 years old, six years old, ten years old, twelve years old and eighteen years old.

Quick Tips: How To Estimate The Chronological Age Of A Human Skeleton – Epiphyseal Closure Method.

One of the methods frequently used by archaeologists/anthropologists to estimate the chronological age of human remains is by studying the level of epiphyseal fusions.

But first what is an epiphysis?An epiphysis is the cap at the end of a long bone that develops from a secondary ossification center. Over the course of adolescence the epiphysis, which is originally separate, will fuse to the diaphysis. The ages of which epiphyseal fusion begins and ends are very well documented, with the majority of epiphyseal activity taking place between the ages of fifteen and twenty-three.

As epiphyseal fusions are progressive they are often scored as either being unfused(non-union),united, andfullyfused (complete union). Females often experience the union of many osteological elements before males, and every individual experience epiphyseal union at different ages.

Click here to read the full post on All Things AAFS!

This is the second of a Quick Tips series on ageing skeletal remains, if you haven’t read the previous post click here. The next in this series will focus on the dentition method of ageing sub-adults. To read more Quick Tips in the mean time, click here! 

To learn about basic fracture types and their characteristics/origins click here!

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Fishie gets the uv treatment. #lisapavelka #magic-glos

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