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How can you tell how old a skeleton is?

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The proper way to identify the age of skeletal remains takes several steps.

1: determine the location of the Humerus and wash it off in a sink

2: go to your kitchen and get 1 plate with bread and manaids

3: put the humerus in the bread and spread manaids

4: eat it

5; examine the fesis for color change

6: get a real corronor.

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In terms of aging a skeleton to determine how long it has existed, the most probable and useful method would be carbon dating.

However, in order to determine the age of the individual at death, besides looking at the state of the teeth etc. there are a couple of methods, relying on measurements of the bones of the hand, wrist and arm. These are known as the 'Tanner-Whitehouse II' method and the 'Matching' method. The first involves taking measurements of the wrist then putting them into the 'Tanner-Whitehouse II' equation to produce an answer. The second method involves comparing the bones of the wrist to pictures of similar bones at different ages, and making an estimation based on this.

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They are identified by the type and age of rock in which they are found, by their size, by comparison to already identified fossils.

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Skeletons can be identified as male or female by looking at their faces and/or their pelvis. Skeletons also carry DNA in their marrow.

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