Xanthopoulou Panagiota, Valakos Efstratios, Youlatos Dionisios, Nikita Efthymia
Department of Zoology, School of Biology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
Department of Biology, Section of Animal and Human Physiology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.
Forensic Sci Int. 2018 May;286:266.e1-266.e8. doi: 10.1016/j.forsciint.2018.03.005. Epub 2018 Mar 12.
The present study tests the accuracy of commonly adopted ageing methods based on the morphology of the pubic symphysis, auricular surface and cranial sutures. These methods are examined both in their traditional form as well as in the context of transition analysis using the ADBOU software in a modern Greek documented collection consisting of 140 individuals who lived mainly in the second half of the twentieth century and come from cemeteries in the area of Athens. The auricular surface overall produced the most accurate age estimates in our material, with different methods based on this anatomical area showing varying degrees of success for different age groups. The pubic symphysis produced accurate results primarily for young adults and the same applied to cranial sutures but the latter appeared completely inappropriate for older individuals. The use of transition analysis through the ADBOU software provided less accurate results than the corresponding traditional ageing methods in our sample. Our results are in agreement with those obtained from validation studies based on material from across the world, but certain differences identified with other studies on Greek material highlight the importance of taking into account intra- and inter-population variability in age estimation.
本研究检验了基于耻骨联合、耳状面和颅缝形态的常用年龄判定方法的准确性。这些方法在其传统形式以及使用ADBOU软件进行过渡分析的背景下进行了检验，分析对象是一个现代希腊文献集，该文献集包含140个人，他们主要生活在20世纪下半叶，来自雅典地区的墓地。在我们的材料中，耳状面总体上得出了最准确的年龄估计结果，基于该解剖区域的不同方法对不同年龄组显示出不同程度的成功。耻骨联合主要对年轻成年人得出了准确结果，颅缝也是如此，但颅缝对于老年人似乎完全不适用。在我们的样本中，通过ADBOU软件进行过渡分析得出的结果不如相应的传统年龄判定方法准确。我们的结果与基于来自世界各地材料的验证研究结果一致，但与其他关于希腊材料的研究中发现的某些差异凸显了在年龄估计中考虑群体内部和群体之间变异性的重要性。
