Metamorphosis at the sternal rib end: A new method to estimate age at death in white males

A new method for estimating age-at-death

A new method for estimating age-at-death from the first rib

✍ Elizabeth A. DiGangi; Jonathan D. Bethard; Erin H. Kimmerle; Lyle W. Konigsberg 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 562 KB

## Abstract A new method for estimating adult age‐at‐death from the first rib was developed as a modification of the Kunos et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 110 (1999) 303–323) method. Data were collected on three aspects of the first rib (costal face, rib head, and tubercle facet) for 470 known‐age male