[Architecture of the human skullcap in the region of the pars bregmatica suturae sagittalis. I. Age dependence].

For scientific investigations of human skeletal remains--e.g. material from cremations--there are often only rather small bone fragments available. The analysis of their inner structure presents itself as one of the few possibilities of finding evidence to characterize the former individual. The article presented here demonstrates structure findings (calvarial thickness; relation between tabula externa, tabula interna, and diploe [in terms of the percentage of the whole section examined], porosity of the diploe [including the mean width of its cavities]; degree of obliteration of the sagittal suture) of a strictly defined skeletal segment in special regard to the expected variability. With the help of the results, change tendencies--not "age changes"--of the investigated components will be discussed.