Publications by authors named "A Becart"
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- Radiocarbon analysis is vital in forensic anthropology for determining the postmortem interval of skeletal remains and establishing medico-legal significance.
- Three case studies from Northern France demonstrate the effectiveness of radiocarbon dating, with varying degrees of forensic relevance and identity confirmation.
- The findings emphasize the importance of radiocarbon dating methods, like traditional and bomb-pulse dating, benefiting both archaeological research and forensic investigations.
In the fields of forensics, the identification of human remains is a recurrent problem. The estimated age at death is one of the copious criteria to be evaluated. In adult teeth, the height of the root dentin transparency is used to estimate age.
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- Estimating age-at-death through dental cementum is a slow and complex method, prompting the need for user-friendly micrograph analysis in cementochronology.* -
- A study compared a developed automated module for quantifying cementum deposits with manual counting by experts, finding that the software was more precise overall, though sensitive to damage and still faced certain biases.* -
- The automated approach offers time-saving benefits for researchers and could facilitate larger population studies, despite still requiring manual definitions for specific parameters.*
Objectives: Cementochronology based on annual deposition of acellular cementum is acknowledged for its superior performance for estimating age-at-death but is also disregarded because of its suspicious effectiveness. This article aims to provide a standardized framework for the validation of the technique and to define and test cementochronology's performance and limitations.
Materials And Methods: To determine the boundaries of the cementum aging technique, we applied a certified protocol on a sample of 200 healthy canines from individuals of known age, sex, postmortem, and inhumation intervals from anthropological and anatomical collections.