Estimating The Age Of An Unidentified Person - 1468 Words

Estimating the age at time of death from an unidentified individual’s remains is an important factor of forensic anthropology. There are certain standard processes and procedures that are employed in the lab to help determine the age as well as other biological profile data. In young adults, bone and tooth maturation are often used to roughly estimate the age of the body. In adults, the deterioration of bones is used to predict the age of the unknown body. However, there are factors that can alter the ability to accurately predict the age of an unidentified person. These factors include, but are not limited to, the environment, the culture they are surrounded by and their natural development time. These variations can cause changes in bone degeneration among populations. When such techniques to determine the age first started being used, the sample for the standards were all from North America meaning there was very little variation and accuracy for it to be used for all ethnicities. As time passed, researchers started evaluating specific populations in order to create more area specific standards. With this came the introduction of new methods and techniques that can be used to determine the age, such as the one in this study. This study focuses on the chest plate, specifically the sternal ends of ribs. The sternal ends of ribs are a good indication for age because the standards allow for age of death estimation above fifty years of age whereas most other standards doShow MoreRelatedFriday Mourning By Kathy Reichs1549 Words   |  7 Pagesto determine individual s age, sex, time of death, and physical condition from their skeleton remains. It is extremely crucial that Brennan diagnoses the skeleton remains accurately, as the legal investigation greatly depends on it. Brennan refers to multiple biological anthropology methods while she was assessing these skeletons. 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