Brief communication: A test and correction of the clavicle method of Stout and Paine for histological age estimation of skeletal remains
✍ Scribed by Stout, Sam D.; Porro, Marcello A.; Perotti, Beatrice
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 18 KB
- Volume
- 100
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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✦ Synopsis
The histological method developed by Stout and Paine ([19921 Am. J . Phys. Antropol. 87:lll-115) for estimating age at death using the clavicle is tested on a known age independent sample from a nineteenth century cemetery near Spitalfriedhof St. Johann in Basel, Switzerland. The mean absolute difference between reported ages and histologically predicted ages is 5.5 years. Mean predicted age for the sample is different from mean reported age. This difference is accounted for by differences in the age distributions between the original autospy sample used to derive the histological agepredicting formula and the cemetery sample, and a n inherent loss of reliability of histological age predictions for the skeletal remains of older individuals. A new formula based upon the combined original autopsy sample of and the Swiss cemetery sample is presented. It is recommended that this formula be used when estimating ages for older individuals or archaeological skeletal samples.