The miles method of assessing age from tooth wear revisited

Journal of Archaeological Science

Volumn 28, Issue 9, 2001, Pages 973-982

  Miles, A E W ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cemetery estimates versus written sources; Continuous scales versus ordinal stages; Post septuagenarians; Revised scottish example; Tooth loss; Upper limits of age scales

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; LIFE EXPECTANCY; TOOTH; WEAR;

EID: 0034835680     PISSN: 03054403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jasc.2000.0652     Document Type: Article

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