Using the Acetabulum to Estimate Age at Death of Adult Males*
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ABSTRACT:The acetabular region is often present and adequately preserved in adult human skeletal remains. Close morphological examination of the 242 left male os coxae from the identified collection of Coimbra (Portugal) has enabled the recognition of seven variables that can be used to estimate age at death. This paper describes these variables and argues their appropriateness by analyzing the correlation between these criteria and the age, the intra‐ and interobserver consistence, and the accuracy in age prediction using Bayesian inference to estimate age of identified specimens. Results show significant close correlation between the acetabular criteria and age, nonsignificant differences in intra‐ and interobserver test, and 89% accuracy in Bayes prediction. Obtained estimated age of the specimens had similar accuracy in all ages. These results indicate that these seven variables, based on the acetabular area, are potentially useful to estimate age at death for adult specimens.
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It is uncertain if the Rissech acetabulum procedure can be applied to females because it was created using an exclusively male skeleton sample.
“It is uncertain if the procedure can be applied to females because it was created using a skeleton sample that was (exclusively) male [4].”
From Three methods of estimating age‐at‐death using three different regions on the os coxa (2026) · cites this paper as [4]
Rissech's acetabulum method showed a strong correlation between observable variables and age, less bias, and minimal intra- and interobserver error because of the standardized numerical scoring procedure.
“Rissech's [4] method showed a strong correlation between observable variables and age, less bias, as well as minimal intra‐ and interobserver error because of the standardized numerical scoring procedure [4].”
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Three methods of estimating age‐at‐death using three different regions on the os coxa
Mkhonza, S. S., Ngubane, N. P., Aladeyelu, O. S., & Rennie, C. O. (2026) · Journal of Forensic Sciences · doi:10.1111/1556-4029.70219
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- Rissech, C., Estabrook, G. F., Cunha, E., & Malgosa, A.
- Venue
- Journal of Forensic Sciences
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2006-03
- Volume
- 51
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 213-229
- ISSN
- 0022-1198
- 1556-4029
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- 112
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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