Bone histomorphometry of the clavicle in a forensic sample from Albania.

Forensic assessment of skeletal material includes age estimation of unknown individuals. When dealing with extremely fragmented human remains that lack macro-features used in age estimation, histological assessment of the skeletal elements can be employed. Historically, microscopic methods for age assessment used by forensic anthropologists have been available since 1965.

A quantitative approach for sex estimation based on cranial morphology.

Objectives: This paper proposes a method for the quantification of the shape of sexually dimorphic cranial traits, namely the glabella, mastoid process and external occipital protuberance.

Materials And Methods: The proposed method was developed using 165 crania from the documented Athens Collection and tested on 20 Cretan crania. It is based on digital photographs of the lateral view of the cranium, drawing of the profile of three sexually dimorphic structures and calculation of variables that express the shape of these structures.

The auricular surface as age indicator in a modern Greek sample: A test of two qualitative methods.

The auricular surface is often found very well preserved, thus age-related changes in this anatomical area can be important for any set of human remains that require identification under different taphonomic conditions. This study tests the Buckberry and Chamberlain (2002) and Schmitt et al. (2005) methods in predicting the age of individuals in a documented sample from Crete, Greece.

Sexual dimorphism of the calcaneus in contemporary Cretans.

During the past decade, several studies have been carried out using the calcaneus bone for sex estimation. This paper collected data using ten variables for metric characteristics of the calcaneus of 144 modern Cretans and examined their correlation with known sex. Secondly, the formulae developed by Peckmann et al.

Evaluating the efficiency of different recording protocols for entheseal changes in regards to expressing activity patterns using archival data and cross-sectional geometric properties.

Objectives: In the past decade there have been extensive discussions on the potential utility of entheseal changes (EC) as activity markers. Nevertheless, no study to date has compared different EC recording protocols with respect to their correlation to activity patterns.

Materials And Methods: This article records changes on fibrocartilaginous entheses of the upper limbs of 90 male skeletons from the documented Athens Collection using the Hawkey and Merbs (Int J Osteoarchaeol 5 (1995) 324-338), Mariotti et al.