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How can scientist use a skull to determine how old the person was at death?
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∙ 15y ago
Age at death estimates from the skull are based on the extent to which the various bones of the cranium have fused together. Unfortunately its been shown that the rate at which this fusion takes place is fairly variable, meaning the method is not that accurate.
Where teeth remain these provide a far more accurate indicator.
In practice the most accurate calculations come from taking age at death estimates based on as much of the skeleton as is available, and so studies of just the skull, especially without teeth can only provide a rough estimate at best.
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∙ 15y agoBy carbondating the bodies of which scientists use radioactivity to determine the age of objects. It is a way of determining the age of certain archeological artifacts of a biological origin up to about 50,000 years old and used in dating things such as bone, cloth, wood and plant fibers that were created in the relatively recent past by human activities.
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∙ 14y agoradio carbon dating
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∙ 6y agoRadio carbon dating
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potassium organs
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Skull with crown tattoo means?
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