Why do we fail in aging the skull from the sagittal suture?
β Scribed by Hershkovitz, Israel; Latimer, Bruce; Dutour, Olivier; Jellema, Lyman M.; Wish-Baratz, Susanne; Rothschild, Christine; Rothschild, Bruce M.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1997
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 66 KB
- Volume
- 103
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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β¦ Synopsis
The controversy over the reliability of ectocranial suture status (open vs. closed) as an age estimation stimulated the pursuit of Meindl and Lovejoy's suggestion (Meindl and Lovejoy [1985] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 68:57-66) for large scale analysis. The extent of the sagittal suture closure was assessed in 3,636 skulls from the Hamann-Todd and Terry collections. The debate over whether cranial suture ossification represents a pathologic or an age-predictable pathologic process also stimulated a comparison with age and two stress markers, hyperostosis frontalis interna and tuberculosis. Sagittal suture closure was found to be age-independent and sexually biased. The wide confidence intervals (for age) appear to preclude meaningful application of suture status for age determination. No correlation was found with the tested biological stressors.
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