Moraitis Konstantinos, Zorba Eleni, Eliopoulos Constantine, Fox Sherry C
Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, School of Medicine, University of Athens, 75 M. Asias Street, Athens, 11527, Greece.
J Forensic Sci. 2014 Jan;59(1):188-94. doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12303. Epub 2013 Oct 22.
The accurate age estimation of adults is an important step in the construction of the biological profile of skeletonized remains. The auricular surface of the ilium as it was developed in 1985 by Lovejoy et al., is one of the methods employed for age estimation. This study presents the results of a blind test of the revised auricular surface aging method developed by Buckberry and Chamberlain. A sample of 120 individuals from the Athens Collection was used to test this revised aging technique. Almost all features and composite score were positively correlated with known age-at-death. The calculation of bias demonstrated no obvious trend for either overestimation or underestimation of age when all individuals were pooled together. Inaccuracy showed that absolute errors of estimated ages against known ages are substantial. The data generated from this study suggest that the revised method can be reliable for age estimation on a modern European population.
准确估计成年人的年龄是构建白骨化遗骸生物特征的重要一步。1985年洛夫乔伊等人提出的髂骨耳状面法是年龄估计所采用的方法之一。本研究展示了对巴克伯里和张伯伦开发的改良耳状面老化法进行盲测的结果。来自雅典藏品的120名个体样本用于测试这种改良的老化技术。几乎所有特征和综合评分都与已知死亡年龄呈正相关。偏差计算表明，当所有个体汇总在一起时，不存在明显的年龄高估或低估趋势。不准确性表明，估计年龄与已知年龄的绝对误差很大。本研究生成的数据表明，该改良方法对于现代欧洲人群的年龄估计可能是可靠的。
