Critères ostéoscopiques d'exploration du vieillissement. L'exemple de la nécropole médiévale de Saint-Étienne de Toulouse

Telmon, Norbert; Rougé, Daniel; Brugne, J. F.; Sevin, Annie; Larrouy, Georges; Arbus, L.

doi:10.3406/bmsap.1993.2358

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“…The skull is the best-preserved unit, followed by long bone shafts, the denser epiphyseal long bone ends, and finally the fragile sternum, clavicle, and scapula. For the pelvis, the denser auricu-lar and sciatic region is better represented than the pubic region (Telmon et al, 1993). Despite the uniqueness of Windover's taphonomic context, the results from this study seem applicable to most other human skeletal assemblages, including those subjected to hydrodynamic sorting processes in a saline-rich, high-energy coastal zone (Spennemann, 1992).…”

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Differential skeletal preservation at Windover Pond: Causes and consequences

Stojanowski

Seidemann

Doran

2002

American J Phys Anthropol

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In this paper, we evaluate the causes of differential skeletal preservation in the Windover Pond skeletal series (8BR246). We collected data on sex and age for approximately 110 individuals, and calculated a preservation score for each individual based on the presence of 80 skeletal landmarks. Our research questions evaluated the relationship between bone preservation and individual age and sex, and between the presence of preserved brain material and skeletal preservation, and the effects of burial location on bone preservation. The results indicate variability in average preservation for the sample (micro = 0.53, SD = 0.22) with an apparent lack of sex-specific (P = 0.79) or age-specific (P = 0.37) differences in preservation. The relationship between brain and skeletal preservation (P = 0.15) was not significant. The horizontal distribution of burials was not significantly correlated with skeletal preservation (north: r = -0.10, P = 0.93; east: r = 0.09, P = 0.45); however, vertical depth was a significant predictor of preservation (r = -0.31, P = 0.005), indicating that skeletal preservation decreased as burials were located closer to the ground surface. The observed variability in preservation scores may be related to the partial drying and resubmergence of the uppermost burials for the last few millennia. Comparison of Windover element-specific survival rates with previous analyses based on terrestrial samples (Galloway et al. [1997] Forensic taphonomy, Boca Raton: CRC Press; Waldron [1987] Death, decay and reconstruction, Manchester: Manchester University Press; Willey et al. [1997] Am J Phys Anthropol 104:513-528) affirms the relationship between element weight or density and bone survival. The unique taphonomic context of our study sample effected little change in bone deterioration processes.

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