Novel dating method to distinguish between forensic and archeological human skeletal remains by bone mineralization indexes

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 127, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 529-533

  Patonai, Zoltan ^a   Maasz, Gabor ^a,b   Avar, Peter ^a   Schmidt, Janos ^a,b   Lorand, Tamas ^a   Bajnoczky, Istvan ^a   Mark, Laszlo ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Bone; Crystallinity index; Dating; FT IR spectroscopy; Mineral composition

Indexed keywords

APATITE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PHOSPHATE;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BONE MINERALIZATION; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; VERTEBRA;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; APATITES; CALCIFICATION, PHYSIOLOGIC; CARBONATES; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; PHOSPHATES; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 84879502760     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-012-0785-4     Document Type: Article

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