Aspartic acid racemization: Applications to forensic and archaeological age estimation

Rebecca C. Griffin; Matthew Collins

doi:10.1201/9781315371382

Aspartic acid racemization: Applications to forensic and archaeological age estimation

Rebecca C. Griffin^*, Matthew Collins

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Abstract

Determining the age-at-death of human remains provides essential information for both forensic and archaeological scientists. For juveniles, it is possible to obtain highly accurate age estimates based on the known patterns of development of the skeleton. However, for adult remains estimating age is problematic. The majority of existing methods rely heavily on degenerative changes that take place in the skeleton as part of the aging process. These changes do not occur at the same rate in all individuals, leading to very broad age estimates (Aykroyd et al. 1999, Wittwer-Backofen et al. 2008). There is, therefore, a real need for the development of new methods for estimating age that are able to provide more accurate age estimates needed by forensic and archaeological scientists.

Originalsprog	Engelsk
Titel	Mechanisms Linking Aging, Diseases and Biological Age Estimation
Redaktører	Sara C. Zapico
Antal sider	10
Forlag	CRC Press
Publikationsdato	1 jan. 2017
Sider	47-56
Kapitel	5
ISBN (Trykt)	978-1-4987-0969-9
ISBN (Elektronisk)	9781498709705
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1201/9781315371382
Status	Udgivet - 1 jan. 2017
Udgivet eksternt	Ja

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