title: New method for estimation of adult skeletal age at death from the morphology of the auricular surface of the ilium.
abstract: A new method for estimating skeletal age at death from the morphology of the auricular surface of the ilium is presented. It uses a multiple regression analysis with dummy variables, and is based on the examination of 700 modern Japanese skeletal remains with age records. The observer using this method needs only to check for the presence or absence of nine (for a male) or seven (for a female) features on the auricular surface and to select the parameter estimates of each feature, calculated by multiple regression analysis with dummy variables. The observer can obtain an estimated age from the sum of parameter estimates. It is shown that a fine granular texture of the auricular surface is typical of younger individuals, whereas a heavily porous texture is characteristic of older individuals, and that both of these features are very useful for estimating age. Our method is shown here to be more accurate than other methods, especially in the older age ranges. Since the auricular surface allows more expedient observations than other parts of the skeleton, this new method can be expected to improve the overall accuracy of estimating skeletal age at death.
authors.affiliation: Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo, Matsudo, Chiba 271-8587, Japan. yuriko@mascat.nihon-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: Yuriko
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Igarashi
authors.forename: Kagumi
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uesu
authors.forename: Tetsuaki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Wakebe
authors.forename: Eisaku
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kanazawa
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000365:Age Determination by Skeleton; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D018732:Forensic Anthropology; D006801:Humans; D007085:Ilium / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015203:Reproducibility of Results