An elusive paleodemography? A comparison of two methods for estimating the adult age distribution of death at late classics Copan, Honduras

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 40-47

  Storey, Rebecca ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Auricular surface seriation; Bayesian estimation; Skeletal adult age estimation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGE DETERMINATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; DEATH; EAR CARTILAGE; HONDURAS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE TABLE; LONGEVITY; MEASUREMENT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; SKELETON;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ARCHAEOLOGY; BAYES THEOREM; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION STUDIES; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HONDURAS; HUMANS; INDIANS, CENTRAL AMERICAN; LIFE TABLES; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 33845907382     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20502     Document Type: Article

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