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Research paper thumbnail of Historical, demographic, curatorial and legal aspects of the BoneMedLeg human skeletal reference collection (Porto, Portugal)

Anthropologischer Anzeiger, Feb 13, 2020

The BoneMedLeg research project was developed to address current research concerns related to the... more The BoneMedLeg research project was developed to address current research concerns related to the use of skeletal reference collections for forensic purposes. These concerns were partly addressed by amassing a new reference collection which incorporates unclaimed human remains sourced from two municipal cemeteries in the city of Porto, Portugal. Amassed between 2012 and 2014 the collection was developed with permission from and in partnership with the Municipality of Porto, in a manner that is similar to that of other skeletal reference collections in Portugal. Traditionally, municipalities have bequeathed human remains that are cleared from temporary primary and secondary burial plots at local cemeteries and deemed unclaimed, to museums and universities for research purposes. The BoneMedLeg collection currently includes a total of 95 individuals, of which only 81 are fully identified (38 males and 43 females), with ages ranging from 21 days to 94 years, and a mean age of about 62 years. Years of death range from 1969 to 2003, and years of birth from 1891 to 1969. Only about half of the individuals are documented as to cause of death, which includes a considerable diversity of etiologies, from oncological to cardiovascular system disorders, and also traumatic injuries. The collection is more representative of an unskilled working class and aged population, due to one of the main sourced cemeteries disproportionately serving more socioeconomic disadvantaged communities and reflecting the demographics of the city over the past 40 years. In addition to describing the history and curatorial process of the collection in detail, this paper also discusses its broad legal framework and potential biases in its profile and composition which can inform and help plan future research projects.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Fall and Rise of Identified Reference Collection: It Is Possible and Necessary to Transition from a Typological Conceptualization of Variation to Effective Utilization of Collections

Forensic Sciences

In some jurisdictions, race, ancestry or population affinity are part of the biological profile u... more In some jurisdictions, race, ancestry or population affinity are part of the biological profile used in preliminary identification, for historical and political reasons. It is long overdue for forensic anthropologists to abandon this typological approach to human variation, regardless of the terms used. Using a sample (n = 105) selected from the Terry and Coimbra identified reference collections, a blind experimental approach is used to test several metric methods and versions of methods for group estimation (Fordisc 3.0 and 3.1, and AncesTrees), that rely on different statistical approaches (discriminant function analysis and random forest algorithms, respectively) derived from different reference samples (Howells’ data in AncesTrees and Fordisc 3.1, and different forensic subsamples in Fordisc 3.0 and 3.1). The accuracy for matching premortem documented group designation is consistently low (36 to 50%) across testing parameters and consistent with other independent tests. The resu...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Relative Compositional Changes of Buried Juvenile Porcine Ribs and Ulnae in the Early Postmortem Interval

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Research paper thumbnail of Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese skeletal sample

Campanacho V, Cardoso HFV, Chamberlain AT. 2018. Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese s... more Campanacho V, Cardoso HFV, Chamberlain AT. 2018. Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese skeletal sample. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Austin, USA, 11th -14nd April.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cabeço da Arruda in the 1860s

The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1... more The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1864, still preserved in two Lisbon museums, provides the occasion for a reminder of the importance of the burials in the history of European anthropology. The material is briefly summarized, together with a discussion on the location of the finds. An AMS analysis of a charcoal sample contained within a skull provides a date consonant with other evidence

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Research paper thumbnail of Trends in adult stature of peoples who inhabited the modern Portuguese territory from the Mesolithic to the late 20thcentury

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Examining the socioeconomic effects on third molar maturation in a Portuguese sample of children, adolescents and young adults

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Estimating age at death from the size of the growing epiphyses and metaphyses of the femur and tibia at the knee

Acta medicinae legalis et socialis, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Testing the predictions of the developmental origins of adult health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis on an identified human skeletal collection II: Age at death and femur length

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Research paper thumbnail of The problem of age determination in living individuals

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Research paper thumbnail of Establishing a minimum postmortem interval of human remains in an advanced state of skeletonization using the growth rate of bryophytes and plant roots

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains using the post-natal development of the occipital bone

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Timing of fusion of the ischiopubic ramus from dry bone observations

HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the influence of occupational and physical activity on the rate of degenerative change of the pubic symphysis in portuguese males from the 19th to 20th century

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2012

Among the many factors suggested as potential sources of variation in the rate of ageing of the p... more Among the many factors suggested as potential sources of variation in the rate of ageing of the pubic symphysis is occupational/physical activity, but this has yet to be demonstrated. This study's main goal is to determine whether occupational/physical activity influences the aging process in the pubic symphysis. We analyzed a sample of 161 males (18-96 years) from two Portuguese identified skeletal collections, where age-related features were recorded in the pubic symphysis as absent/present. The sample was divided in two groups according to the occupation of the individuals (manual and non-manual) and in two groups according to the femoral robusticity index (robust and gracile). The manual and robust groups represent individuals with more physically demanding occupations while the non-manual and gracile groups represent less physically demanding occupations. The possible influence of occupational/physical activity on the rate of ageing was evaluated by comparing the transition age for each age-related feature, between the two groups, using logistic regression. Only the ligamentous outgrowths on the ventral beveling showed a statistically significant younger age in the robust group, indicating a possible faster rate or early timing of change in the individuals with a more physically demanding activity compared with their gracile counterparts. Thus, these results do not provide significant support to the hypothesis that individuals with a greater demanding occupation or physical activity show greater pubic symphysis degeneration. Further testing of this hypothesis in other samples with individuals from known occupation is required. Am J Phys Anthropol 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Research paper thumbnail of Age at death and linear enamel hypoplasias: Testing the effects of childhood stress and adult socioeconomic circumstances in premature mortality

American Journal of Human Biology, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter Four

The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1... more The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1864, still preserved in two Lisbon museums, provides the occasion for a reminder of the importance of the burials in the history of European anthropology. The material is briefly summarized, together with a discussion on the location of the finds. An AMS analysis of a charcoal sample contained within a skull provides a date consonant with other evidence.

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Research paper thumbnail of Is Demirjian’s original method really useful for age estimation in a forensic context?

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 2015

The suitability of Demirjian&... more The suitability of Demirjian's method for forensic age estimation has been systematically questioned. The aim of this study is to further assess the reliability of Demirjian's original method in forensic age estimation using a sample of Portuguese children. 564 panoramic radiographs of Portuguese boys and girls between 6 and 16 years of age were evaluated using Demirjian's method. Dental age (DA) was determined using the 50th percentile for the maturity score obtained for each age group. The mean difference between chronological age (CA) and dental age (DA) and the mean absolute difference between CA and DA were calculated for each age group. Paired t tests were used to test the statistical significance of mean differences between CA and DA. For each individual, a 94 % confidence interval was calculated for estimated DA, using the 3rd and 97th percentiles in Demirjian's conversion tables. Chronological age was overestimated in boys, in every age group; mean differences between CA and DA were statistically significant, expect for age 7. In girls, chronological age was overestimated in the 10-15 year-old age group. The difference between CA and DA was highest in the 12 years olds for both sexes. The 94 % confidence intervals did not include the true chronological age in all 6, 13, and 15 year-old girls, and all 14 and 15 year-old boys. Only a small portion of the individuals in the remaining age groups had their true chronological age falling within the probable age interval. Results show a systematic bias and consistent inaccuracy in estimating age from dental development using Demirjian's original method, making this methodology unsuitable for age estimation in the study sample. These results add to published evidence which suggests that Demirjian's method is not suitable and should be abandoned altogether for forensic age estimation purposes.

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Research paper thumbnail of Author’s response to reviews Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese dental reference dataset Authors

Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese d... more Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese dental reference dataset Authors: Jayakumar Jayaraman (jayakumar83@hotmail.com) Hai Ming Wong (wonghmg@hku.hk) Graham Roberts (graham.roberts101@outlook.com) Nigel King (profnigelking@mac.com) Hugo Cardoso (hcardoso@sfu.ca) Pavethynath Velusamy (pave.sanki@gmail.com) Ronaldo Vergara (ronnievcdcc@yahoo.com) Keniichi Yanagita (kenyana@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp) Version: 1 Date: 20 Sep 2019 Author’s response to reviews: Dear Editor-in-Chief, We appreciate the reviewers’ comments on our work which have significantly improved the quality of the manuscript. We have addressed the Reviewers’ comments and have made point-topoint response to each comment.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Effects of Bilateral Asymmetry in Long Bone Length on Juvenile Age Predictions

Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT. 2014. Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains fro... more Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT. 2014. Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the diaphyseal length of the long bones in the postnatal period. Int J Legal Med 128:809-825. Primeau C, Friis L, Sejrsen B, Lynnerup N. 2016. A method for estimating age of medieval sub-adults from infancy to adulthood based on long bone length. Am J Phys Anthropol 159:135-145. Stull KE, L’Abb e EN, Ousley SD. 2014. Using multivariate adaptive regression splines to estimate subadult age from diaphyseal dimensions. Am J Phys Anthropol 154:376-386.  26 juveniles belonging to the skeletal reference collection curated at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Research paper thumbnail of Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

The sourcing of cadavers for North American skeletal reference collections occurred immediately a... more The sourcing of cadavers for North American skeletal reference collections occurred immediately after death and targeted the poor and marginalised. In Europe, collections sourced bodies that were buried and unclaimed after some time in cemeteries with no perpetual care mandate, and may have also targeted the underprivileged. The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and abandonment was examined in a sample of unclaimed remains (603 adults and 98 children) collected from cemeteries in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, that were incorporated in a collection. Results demonstrate that low SES individuals are not more likely to be abandoned nor to be incorporated in the collection than higher SES individuals. Furthermore, historical data indicate that the poorest were not incorporated into the collection, because of burial practices. Although the accumulation of collections in North America was facilitated by structural violence that targeted the poor and marginalised, this phenom...

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Research paper thumbnail of Historical, demographic, curatorial and legal aspects of the BoneMedLeg human skeletal reference collection (Porto, Portugal)

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The BoneMedLeg research project was developed to address current research concerns related to the... more The BoneMedLeg research project was developed to address current research concerns related to the use of skeletal reference collections for forensic purposes. These concerns were partly addressed by amassing a new reference collection which incorporates unclaimed human remains sourced from two municipal cemeteries in the city of Porto, Portugal. Amassed between 2012 and 2014 the collection was developed with permission from and in partnership with the Municipality of Porto, in a manner that is similar to that of other skeletal reference collections in Portugal. Traditionally, municipalities have bequeathed human remains that are cleared from temporary primary and secondary burial plots at local cemeteries and deemed unclaimed, to museums and universities for research purposes. The BoneMedLeg collection currently includes a total of 95 individuals, of which only 81 are fully identified (38 males and 43 females), with ages ranging from 21 days to 94 years, and a mean age of about 62 years. Years of death range from 1969 to 2003, and years of birth from 1891 to 1969. Only about half of the individuals are documented as to cause of death, which includes a considerable diversity of etiologies, from oncological to cardiovascular system disorders, and also traumatic injuries. The collection is more representative of an unskilled working class and aged population, due to one of the main sourced cemeteries disproportionately serving more socioeconomic disadvantaged communities and reflecting the demographics of the city over the past 40 years. In addition to describing the history and curatorial process of the collection in detail, this paper also discusses its broad legal framework and potential biases in its profile and composition which can inform and help plan future research projects.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Fall and Rise of Identified Reference Collection: It Is Possible and Necessary to Transition from a Typological Conceptualization of Variation to Effective Utilization of Collections

Forensic Sciences

In some jurisdictions, race, ancestry or population affinity are part of the biological profile u... more In some jurisdictions, race, ancestry or population affinity are part of the biological profile used in preliminary identification, for historical and political reasons. It is long overdue for forensic anthropologists to abandon this typological approach to human variation, regardless of the terms used. Using a sample (n = 105) selected from the Terry and Coimbra identified reference collections, a blind experimental approach is used to test several metric methods and versions of methods for group estimation (Fordisc 3.0 and 3.1, and AncesTrees), that rely on different statistical approaches (discriminant function analysis and random forest algorithms, respectively) derived from different reference samples (Howells’ data in AncesTrees and Fordisc 3.1, and different forensic subsamples in Fordisc 3.0 and 3.1). The accuracy for matching premortem documented group designation is consistently low (36 to 50%) across testing parameters and consistent with other independent tests. The resu...

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Research paper thumbnail of The Relative Compositional Changes of Buried Juvenile Porcine Ribs and Ulnae in the Early Postmortem Interval

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Research paper thumbnail of Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese skeletal sample

Campanacho V, Cardoso HFV, Chamberlain AT. 2018. Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese s... more Campanacho V, Cardoso HFV, Chamberlain AT. 2018. Sternum maturation in an identified Portuguese skeletal sample. 87th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists. Austin, USA, 11th -14nd April.

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Research paper thumbnail of Cabeço da Arruda in the 1860s

The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1... more The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1864, still preserved in two Lisbon museums, provides the occasion for a reminder of the importance of the burials in the history of European anthropology. The material is briefly summarized, together with a discussion on the location of the finds. An AMS analysis of a charcoal sample contained within a skull provides a date consonant with other evidence

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Research paper thumbnail of Trends in adult stature of peoples who inhabited the modern Portuguese territory from the Mesolithic to the late 20thcentury

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Examining the socioeconomic effects on third molar maturation in a Portuguese sample of children, adolescents and young adults

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2016

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Research paper thumbnail of Estimating age at death from the size of the growing epiphyses and metaphyses of the femur and tibia at the knee

Acta medicinae legalis et socialis, 2010

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Research paper thumbnail of Testing the predictions of the developmental origins of adult health and disease (DOHaD) hypothesis on an identified human skeletal collection II: Age at death and femur length

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Research paper thumbnail of The problem of age determination in living individuals

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Research paper thumbnail of Establishing a minimum postmortem interval of human remains in an advanced state of skeletonization using the growth rate of bryophytes and plant roots

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2009

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Research paper thumbnail of Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains using the post-natal development of the occipital bone

International Journal of Legal Medicine, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Timing of fusion of the ischiopubic ramus from dry bone observations

HOMO - Journal of Comparative Human Biology, 2013

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the influence of occupational and physical activity on the rate of degenerative change of the pubic symphysis in portuguese males from the 19th to 20th century

American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2012

Among the many factors suggested as potential sources of variation in the rate of ageing of the p... more Among the many factors suggested as potential sources of variation in the rate of ageing of the pubic symphysis is occupational/physical activity, but this has yet to be demonstrated. This study's main goal is to determine whether occupational/physical activity influences the aging process in the pubic symphysis. We analyzed a sample of 161 males (18-96 years) from two Portuguese identified skeletal collections, where age-related features were recorded in the pubic symphysis as absent/present. The sample was divided in two groups according to the occupation of the individuals (manual and non-manual) and in two groups according to the femoral robusticity index (robust and gracile). The manual and robust groups represent individuals with more physically demanding occupations while the non-manual and gracile groups represent less physically demanding occupations. The possible influence of occupational/physical activity on the rate of ageing was evaluated by comparing the transition age for each age-related feature, between the two groups, using logistic regression. Only the ligamentous outgrowths on the ventral beveling showed a statistically significant younger age in the robust group, indicating a possible faster rate or early timing of change in the individuals with a more physically demanding activity compared with their gracile counterparts. Thus, these results do not provide significant support to the hypothesis that individuals with a greater demanding occupation or physical activity show greater pubic symphysis degeneration. Further testing of this hypothesis in other samples with individuals from known occupation is required. Am J Phys Anthropol 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

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Research paper thumbnail of Age at death and linear enamel hypoplasias: Testing the effects of childhood stress and adult socioeconomic circumstances in premature mortality

American Journal of Human Biology, 2014

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Research paper thumbnail of Chapter Four

The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1... more The identification of osteological evidence from the earliest excavation of Cabeço da Arruda in 1864, still preserved in two Lisbon museums, provides the occasion for a reminder of the importance of the burials in the history of European anthropology. The material is briefly summarized, together with a discussion on the location of the finds. An AMS analysis of a charcoal sample contained within a skull provides a date consonant with other evidence.

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Research paper thumbnail of Is Demirjian’s original method really useful for age estimation in a forensic context?

Forensic Science, Medicine, and Pathology, 2015

The suitability of Demirjian&... more The suitability of Demirjian's method for forensic age estimation has been systematically questioned. The aim of this study is to further assess the reliability of Demirjian's original method in forensic age estimation using a sample of Portuguese children. 564 panoramic radiographs of Portuguese boys and girls between 6 and 16 years of age were evaluated using Demirjian's method. Dental age (DA) was determined using the 50th percentile for the maturity score obtained for each age group. The mean difference between chronological age (CA) and dental age (DA) and the mean absolute difference between CA and DA were calculated for each age group. Paired t tests were used to test the statistical significance of mean differences between CA and DA. For each individual, a 94 % confidence interval was calculated for estimated DA, using the 3rd and 97th percentiles in Demirjian's conversion tables. Chronological age was overestimated in boys, in every age group; mean differences between CA and DA were statistically significant, expect for age 7. In girls, chronological age was overestimated in the 10-15 year-old age group. The difference between CA and DA was highest in the 12 years olds for both sexes. The 94 % confidence intervals did not include the true chronological age in all 6, 13, and 15 year-old girls, and all 14 and 15 year-old boys. Only a small portion of the individuals in the remaining age groups had their true chronological age falling within the probable age interval. Results show a systematic bias and consistent inaccuracy in estimating age from dental development using Demirjian's original method, making this methodology unsuitable for age estimation in the study sample. These results add to published evidence which suggests that Demirjian's method is not suitable and should be abandoned altogether for forensic age estimation purposes.

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Research paper thumbnail of Author’s response to reviews Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese dental reference dataset Authors

Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese d... more Title: Age estimation in three distinct East Asian population groups using southern Han Chinese dental reference dataset Authors: Jayakumar Jayaraman (jayakumar83@hotmail.com) Hai Ming Wong (wonghmg@hku.hk) Graham Roberts (graham.roberts101@outlook.com) Nigel King (profnigelking@mac.com) Hugo Cardoso (hcardoso@sfu.ca) Pavethynath Velusamy (pave.sanki@gmail.com) Ronaldo Vergara (ronnievcdcc@yahoo.com) Keniichi Yanagita (kenyana@dent.kyushu-u.ac.jp) Version: 1 Date: 20 Sep 2019 Author’s response to reviews: Dear Editor-in-Chief, We appreciate the reviewers’ comments on our work which have significantly improved the quality of the manuscript. We have addressed the Reviewers’ comments and have made point-topoint response to each comment.

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Research paper thumbnail of The Effects of Bilateral Asymmetry in Long Bone Length on Juvenile Age Predictions

Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT. 2014. Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains fro... more Cardoso HFV, Abrantes J, Humphrey LT. 2014. Age estimation of immature human skeletal remains from the diaphyseal length of the long bones in the postnatal period. Int J Legal Med 128:809-825. Primeau C, Friis L, Sejrsen B, Lynnerup N. 2016. A method for estimating age of medieval sub-adults from infancy to adulthood based on long bone length. Am J Phys Anthropol 159:135-145. Stull KE, L’Abb e EN, Ousley SD. 2014. Using multivariate adaptive regression splines to estimate subadult age from diaphyseal dimensions. Am J Phys Anthropol 154:376-386.  26 juveniles belonging to the skeletal reference collection curated at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, in Lisbon, Portugal.

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Research paper thumbnail of Structural violence and the nature of cemetery-based skeletal reference collections

The sourcing of cadavers for North American skeletal reference collections occurred immediately a... more The sourcing of cadavers for North American skeletal reference collections occurred immediately after death and targeted the poor and marginalised. In Europe, collections sourced bodies that were buried and unclaimed after some time in cemeteries with no perpetual care mandate, and may have also targeted the underprivileged. The relationship between socio-economic status (SES) and abandonment was examined in a sample of unclaimed remains (603 adults and 98 children) collected from cemeteries in the city of Lisbon, Portugal, that were incorporated in a collection. Results demonstrate that low SES individuals are not more likely to be abandoned nor to be incorporated in the collection than higher SES individuals. Furthermore, historical data indicate that the poorest were not incorporated into the collection, because of burial practices. Although the accumulation of collections in North America was facilitated by structural violence that targeted the poor and marginalised, this phenom...

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Research paper thumbnail of Estimating Menarcheal Status in Juvenile Skeletal Remains from Dental and Skeletal Maturation

49th CABA-ACAB Annual Meeting, 2022

Sexual maturity in adolescents corresponds with the peak height velocity and the first occurrence... more Sexual maturity in adolescents corresponds with the peak height velocity and the first occurrence of the menstrual cycle in girls. Despite the importance of the onset of puberty, limited studies have been conducted to estimate menarcheal status and the impact of this transitional period on skeletal and dental maturation. This study uses logistic regression to examine the relationship between menarcheal status (post-menarche or pre-menarche) and the development of all assessed bones and teeth. Demirjian guideline was considered to evaluate Dental maturation, and the Tanner-Whitehouse method was used to estimate the stages of skeletal ossifications in the hand/wrist of thirty-three girls at the age of 6-19 at the University of Montreal Growth Study. The results illustrate that the maturation of the distal radius provides the strongest relationship with the menarcheal status, followed by the phalange of the fifth finger, the second molar, and the canine. Combining any of these indicators did not approve any indicators of menarcheal status. This research can offer a reliable method to examine the menarcheal status in skeletal remains, provide insight into the reproductive shelf-life, social and nutritional conditions of past populations.

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Research paper thumbnail of GROWTH STATUS OF SURVIVORS AND NON- SURVIVORS OF SKELETAL TUBERCULOSIS: THE RELEVANCE OF RECORDS OF CHILD ADMISSIONS TO THE SANT'ANA SANITARIUM, PORTUGAL (1904-1953) FOR HEALTH STUDIES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL POPULATIONS

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Research paper thumbnail of Socioeconomic status and fatal accidents in Cuyahoga County, Ohio

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Research paper thumbnail of Small but significant: Age-at-death estimation from the developing epiphyses and metaphyses of the six long bones

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Research paper thumbnail of Preliminary Testing of Facial Approximation Methods for Finding the Pronasale in Children

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Research paper thumbnail of Does the timiof basilar suture closure provide reliable information for age estimation of unidentified human skeletal remains in a forensic context

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Research paper thumbnail of Auxological Approaches to the Study of Skeletal Populations: An Example Using a Modern Documented Skeletal Collection

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Research paper thumbnail of Is the sternum reliable for stature estimation? (In Portuguese)

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Research paper thumbnail of Cranial growth as an indicator of age in juvenile skeletal remains

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Research paper thumbnail of Reliability of Skeletal Maturation of the Knee for Age Estimates in Skeletal Remains

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Research paper thumbnail of Can we accurately estimate the age of non-adult human skeletal remains from measurements of the long bones? A test of published regression equations

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Research paper thumbnail of Assessing the reliability of facial approximations: A test using four human skulls from the Lisbon collection (In Portuguese)

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Research paper thumbnail of Intra- and Inter-observer Error Associated with Radiographic Osteometry of Juveniles (In Portuguese)

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Research paper thumbnail of The Importance of Forensic Botany for the Estimation of the Post-mortem Period and for the Positive Identification of Skeletonized Remains: A Case Report (In Portuguese)

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Research paper thumbnail of Brief Epidemiological Profile of the Skeletal Reference Collection housed at the Bocage Museum (National Museum of Natural History, Lisbon) and its Relevance to Paleopathological and Paleoepidemiological Studies (In Portuguese)

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Research paper thumbnail of Estimating stature from human skeletal remains: Does it matter whether we are estimating living or cadaver stature?

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Research paper thumbnail of Small but significant: Age-at-death estimation from the developing epiphyses and metaphyses of the six long bones (SfAA 2016 Poster)

No studies thus far have examined the utility of the epiphyses and metaphyses of the long bones i... more No studies thus far have examined the utility of the epiphyses and metaphyses of the long bones in depth for the purposes of age estimation, with exception of those at the knee. This study explores and models the relationship between these bone portions and age, for all six of the long bones.

( For published paper see: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajpa.23081/abstract )

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