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A Bayesian approach to the estimation of the age of humans from tooth development and wear

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Fig. 1 – Wear thresholds used to define wear stages in this work.

Fig. 1 – Wear thresholds used to define wear stages in this work.

Fig. 2 – Mean development stage thresholds andpopulation variationof permanent molars, 95% confidence intervals forlognormal distribution of Moorrees et al. 1963b (upper line) and a logistic approximation to that distribution (lower line).

Fig. 2 – Mean development stage thresholds andpopulation variationof permanent m...

Fig. 3 – Posterior means and population variation for wear stage thresholds as 95% confidence intervals of a logistic distribution.

Fig. 3 – Posterior means and population variation for wear stage thresholds as 9...

Fig. 4 –Wear on archaeological tooth specimens (from ChaMBerlain 1994, figure 9 p.18, used by permission, © Andrew Chamberlain). See text for discussion of age estimates. On the left teeth conventionally aged at about 18 years, on the right at 40-50 years.

Fig. 4 –Wear on archaeological tooth specimens (from ChaMBerlain 1994, figure 9 ...

Millard A., Gowland R. 2002, A Bayesian approach to the estimation of the age of humans from tooth development and wear, Archeologia e Calcolatori 13