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The effectiveness of skeletal age-estimation in the reconstruction of population survivorship in post-medieval Dublin
International Journal of Osteoarchaeology ( IF 1.361 ) Pub Date : 2021-01-15 , DOI: 10.1002/oa.2960
Melissa A. Clark 1
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Bioarchaeologists have long used age estimates from skeletal remains to draw conclusions about past lifeways and sociobiological phenomena such as health, stress, fertility, and frailty, among others. However, the estimation of age from skeletal remains is complicated by a multitude of well-documented challenges including age mimicry, variation in degeneration, preservation, and accuracy between anatomical regions, individuals, and populations. The application of transition analysis to bioarchaeological age estimation was introduced nearly two decades ago to address some of these challenges, and the newest version promise further improvements. However, given the time lag between the introduction of a new technology and its adoption, continued evaluation of existing methods remains important. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of skeletal age-at-death estimation through transition analysis in the reconstruction of population survivorship in 18th century Dublin, Ireland. It was hypothesized that there would be no differences between the survival distributions calculated from 18th-century parish records and survival distributions estimated from skeletal remains rom approximately the same time and location. Results show that survivorship estimated from transition analysis was approximately equal to the survivorship calculated from burial records in early- to mid-adulthood, despite the fact that the samples do not represent the same individuals. However, transition analysis consistently produced higher survival curves in later adulthood, despite the lower socioeconomic statuses of the individuals represented in the skeletal sample relative to the individuals in the burial records, though these differences were not statistically significant for females. These findings suggest that bioarchaeologists should continue to exercise caution when drawing conclusions about populations based on skeletons.

中文翻译:

骨骼年龄估计在后中世纪都柏林人口生存重建中的有效性

生物考古学家长期以来一直使用骨骼遗骸的年龄估计来得出关于过去生活方式和社会生物学现象的结论,例如健康、压力、生育能力和虚弱等。然而,根据骨骼遗骸估计年龄很复杂,因为存在大量有据可查的挑战,包括年龄模仿、退化的变化、保存以及解剖区域、个体和种群之间的准确性。近 20 年前引入了过渡分析在生物考古年龄估计中的应用,以解决其中一些挑战,最新版本有望进一步改进。然而,考虑到新技术的引入和采用之间的时间间隔,对现有方法的持续评估仍然很重要。本研究的目的是通过过渡分析评估骨骼死亡年龄估计在 18 世纪爱尔兰都柏林人口生存重建中的有效性。假设根据 18 世纪教区记录计算的生存分布与根据大致相同时间和地点的骨骼遗骸估计的生存分布之间没有差异。结果表明,尽管样本并不代表同一个人,但根据过渡分析估计的存活率大约等于根据成年早期至中期的埋葬记录计算的存活率。然而,过渡分析始终在成年后期产生更高的生存曲线,尽管与埋葬记录中的个体相比,骨骼样本中所代表的个体的社会经济地位较低,但这些差异对于女性而言在统计上并不显着。这些发现表明,生物考古学家在根据骨骼得出关于种群的结论时应该继续保持谨慎。
更新日期:2021-01-15
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