UID:
almahu_9949697705202882
Format:
1 online resource (278 pages)
ISBN:
0-12-814492-0
,
0-12-814491-2
Content:
Age Estimation: A Multidisciplinary Approach is the only reference in the field covering all techniques and methods involving age estimation from different perspectives in just one volume. The book provides comprehensive coverage of all aspects of age estimation: aging the living and the dead, human rights, and skeletal, dental, histological, and biochemical techniques and methods available--
Note:
1. Complexities and considerations of human age estimation / Sarah Ellingham and Joe Adserias-Garriga -- 2. Legal background of age estimation for the dead and the living / Emilio Nuzzolese and Giancarlo Di Vella -- Section I: Anthropological approach of age estimation : 3. Skeletal age estimation of the living and the dead: the evolution of methodology / Douglas H. Ubelaker and Ashleigh Longeway -- 4. Skeletal age estimation in juveniles and subadults / Craig A. Cunningham -- 5. Skeletal age estimation in adults / Joe Adserias-Garriga and Rebecca Wilson-Taylor -- Section II. Odontological approach of age estimation : 6. Evolution of methods and state-of-the-art in dental age estimation / Joe Adserias-Garriga -- 7. Dental age estimation in fetal and children / Sakher AlQahtani -- 8. Dental age assessment in late adolescence / Derek M. Draft and Kathleen A. Kasper -- 9. Dental age estimation in adults / Stella Martin de las Heras -- Section III. Histological approach of age estimation : 10. Bone histology for skeletal age-at-death estimation / Victoria M. Dominguez and Sophia Mavroudas -- 11. The neonatal line as evidence of live birth / Joe Adserias-Garriga and Vivian Visnapuu -- 12. Cementochronology: a validated but disregarded method for age at death estimation / Benoit Bertrand, Inês Oliveira-Santos and Eugénia Cunha -- Section IV. Biochemical approach of age estimation : 13. The evolution of methodology in biochemical age estimation / Sara C. Zapico, Rebecca Stone-Gordon and Joe Adserias-Garriga -- 14. Age estimation based on chemical approaches / Sara C. Zapico, Cassandra M. DeGaglia and Joe Adserias-Garriga -- 15. Age estimation based on molecular biology approaches / Sara C. Zapico, Christian Thomas and Silvia Zoppis.
Language:
English
