Don't throw the baby teeth out with the bathwater: Estimating subadult age using tooth wear in commingled archaeological assemblages

Commingled assemblages of fragmentary human skeletal remains are a common feature of many archaeological sites and pose significant analytical problems for bioarchaeologists. Such deposits often contain a high volume of the teeth of subadults for which it is challenging to estimate age, including de...

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Main Authors: Beck, J. (Author), Smith, B.H (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: John Wiley and Sons Ltd 2019
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