García-Donas, Julieta G., Paine, Robert, Dotsika, Elissavet, Diamantopoulos, George, Michopoulou, Efrossyni, Kranioti, Elena (2019) Bone histology and chemistry for forensic identification: what can a small rib fragment tell you? In: Summer Annual Conference of the British Association of Human Identification (BAHID), 5-7th July 2019, Moreton-in-Marsh, United Kingdom. (Unpublished) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:75953)
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Abstract
Introduction: Age-at-death and origin are crucial pieces of information required for the
identification of unknown individuals. Macroscopic, microscopic and laboratory-based
analyses are used for these purposes with the choice of the method being critical to
ensure accurate results. This research investigates the development of Cretan
population-specific methods of identification through bone histology and isotope
analysis.
Materials and Methods: Fifty-two rib fragments of known age from the Cretan
osteological collection were used for this study. Histomorphometric analysis and multiisotope profiles were applied in an effort to explore age related changes and their
significance in origin prediction. Moreover, histological and stable isotopes- data were
analysed jointly in a small sample set (N=11). Statistical analysis was performed with
IBM SPSS 24.
Results: Age estimates showed higher accuracy rates using population-specific
formulae with a minimum error of 13 years from known age when applying two
histological variables. C13 and N15 showed correlations with age and differences were
also observed between healthy and pathological samples. The combination of both data
analyses on the small data set provided age estimates with less than 10 years of
standard error.
Conclusions: Rib fragments are routinely used in forensic age estimation and stable
isotopes in diet reconstruction and determination of origin. This paper gives a different
perspective in forensic investigation by investigating separately and jointly both
analyses conducted in small rib samples. Confirmation of this preliminary analysis is
required and it can open new avenues in forensic identification applicable in a range of
fatalities involving unidentified individuals.
Item Type: | Conference or workshop item (Speech) |
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Uncontrolled keywords: | rib, histomorphometry, age estimation, stable isotopes |
Subjects: |
Q Science Q Science > QD Chemistry Q Science > QM Human anatomy |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Human and Social Sciences > School of Anthropology and Conservation |
Depositing User: | Julieta Garcia Donas |
Date Deposited: | 22 Aug 2019 15:20 UTC |
Last Modified: | 16 Feb 2021 14:06 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/75953 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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