Age Estimation of Skeleton 4
Location
CoLab, COM 298
Start Date
30-4-2026 1:15 PM
Document Type
Poster
Description
Human skeletons have been in use at Johnson County Community College for many years without identification, the researchers aimed to change that. Of the six, authentic model skeletons their ethnicity, sex, and height have already been determined. The final task, our task, was the age estimation of skeleton #4 solely using the cranial suture method as to not disarticulate the actual specimen. Through the combined use of: The Suchey-Books Method which looks at feature changes amongst the billowing of the pubic symphysis, The Osborn phase by evaluating increases in bone porosity and bony spicules, and the Cranial Suture Score Method a relative age was determined. From the provided pubic symphysis an estimated age range was calculated. The Auricular surface provided an age range similar to that of the Suchey-Books Method. Finally, The Cranial Suture Method resulted in an age roughly similar to that of the previous two. From these, a more narrowed age range of skeleton #4 was evaluated to be relatively 70.
Image
Age Estimation of Skeleton 4
CoLab, COM 298
Human skeletons have been in use at Johnson County Community College for many years without identification, the researchers aimed to change that. Of the six, authentic model skeletons their ethnicity, sex, and height have already been determined. The final task, our task, was the age estimation of skeleton #4 solely using the cranial suture method as to not disarticulate the actual specimen. Through the combined use of: The Suchey-Books Method which looks at feature changes amongst the billowing of the pubic symphysis, The Osborn phase by evaluating increases in bone porosity and bony spicules, and the Cranial Suture Score Method a relative age was determined. From the provided pubic symphysis an estimated age range was calculated. The Auricular surface provided an age range similar to that of the Suchey-Books Method. Finally, The Cranial Suture Method resulted in an age roughly similar to that of the previous two. From these, a more narrowed age range of skeleton #4 was evaluated to be relatively 70.
Comments
The faculty mentor for this project was Gideon Ney.