Estimating age from adult occlusal wear: a modification of the miles method.

Abstract:

:The Miles method of age estimation relies on molar wear to estimate age and is widely used in bioarcheological contexts. However, because the method requires physical seriation and a sample of subadults to estimate wear rates it cannot be applied to many samples. Here, we modify the Miles method by scoring occlusal wear and estimating molar wear rates from adult wear gradients in 311 hunter-gatherers and provide formulae to estimate the error associated with each age estimate. A check of the modified method in a subsample (n = 22) shows that interval estimates overlap in all but one case with age categories estimated from traditional methods; this suggests that the modifications have not hampered the ability of the Miles method to estimate age even in heterogeneous samples. As expected, the error increases with age and in populations with smaller sample sizes. These modifications allow the Miles method to be applied to skeletal samples of adult crania that were previously only amenable to cranial suture age estimation, and importantly, provide a measure of uncertainty for each age estimate.

journal_name

Am J Phys Anthropol

authors

Gilmore CC,Grote MN

doi

10.1002/ajpa.22106

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-10-01 00:00:00

pages

181-92

issue

2

eissn

0002-9483

issn

1096-8644

journal_volume

149

pub_type

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