Book contents
- Dental Cementum in Anthropology
- Dental Cementum in Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Cementochronology in Chronobiology
- Part I The Biology of Cementum
- Part II Protocols
- Part III Applications
- 17 Using Cementochronology to Discuss the Organization of Past Neanderthal Societies
- 18 Investigating Seasonal Competition between Hominins and Cave Hyaenas in the Belgian Ardennes during the Late Pleistocene: Insights from Cementum Analyses
- 19 Cementochronology to the Rescue: Osteobiography of a Middle Woodland Woman with a Combined Skeletal Dysplasia
- 20 Estimating a Mortality Profile of Fisher-Gatherers in Brazil Using Cementochronology
- 21 Cementochronology: A Solution to Reconstructing Past Populations’ Mortality Profiles Using Individual Age-at-Death Estimates
- 22 Assessing Age-Related Mortality at Petra, Jordan, Using Cementochronology and Hazard Modeling
- 23 Shaping Age-at-Death Distributions by Applying Tooth Cementum Analysis to the Early Medieval Graveyard of Lauchheim (Germany)
- 24 Back to the Root: The Coming of Age of Cementochronology
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
21 - Cementochronology: A Solution to Reconstructing Past Populations’ Mortality Profiles Using Individual Age-at-Death Estimates
from Part III - Applications
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2022
Book contents
- Dental Cementum in Anthropology
- Dental Cementum in Anthropology
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Foreword
- Introduction: Cementochronology in Chronobiology
- Part I The Biology of Cementum
- Part II Protocols
- Part III Applications
- 17 Using Cementochronology to Discuss the Organization of Past Neanderthal Societies
- 18 Investigating Seasonal Competition between Hominins and Cave Hyaenas in the Belgian Ardennes during the Late Pleistocene: Insights from Cementum Analyses
- 19 Cementochronology to the Rescue: Osteobiography of a Middle Woodland Woman with a Combined Skeletal Dysplasia
- 20 Estimating a Mortality Profile of Fisher-Gatherers in Brazil Using Cementochronology
- 21 Cementochronology: A Solution to Reconstructing Past Populations’ Mortality Profiles Using Individual Age-at-Death Estimates
- 22 Assessing Age-Related Mortality at Petra, Jordan, Using Cementochronology and Hazard Modeling
- 23 Shaping Age-at-Death Distributions by Applying Tooth Cementum Analysis to the Early Medieval Graveyard of Lauchheim (Germany)
- 24 Back to the Root: The Coming of Age of Cementochronology
- Index
- Plate Section (PDF Only)
- References
Summary
Paleodemographic mortality profiles are flawed due in part to well-understood methodological problems with individual age-at-death estimates. Cementochronology combined with probability density analysis potentially provides a solution. In this chapter we apply cementochronology as a single age indicator to reconstruct the mortality profile and life table of an archaeological sample of deciduous and permanent teeth from 119 individuals in France. Our results are consistent with the parish register data and demonstrate that cementochronology is effective in estimating the mortality of those under the age of 35. However, the method appears to underestimate the age-at-death for elderly individuals. This research points to the need for additional testing in elderly subjects. In addition, to improve the representativeness of archaeological samples, expanding this approach to other types of teeth for adults and subadults remains a major issue.
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- Dental Cementum in Anthropology , pp. 338 - 350Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022
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