Expanding Juvenile Age Assessments using 2013 Recovered MCIG Subadult Dental
Data
Brianne E. CharlesEmily Mueller Epstein
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, 15-19 April 2015.
Symposium: People that no one had use for, had nothing to give to, no place to offer: The Milwaukee County Institution Grounds Poor Farm Cemetery
MCIG Age Category Distribution
Mind the Gap
Maresh (1970)
Moorrees et al.
(1963)
Fazekas and
Kosa (1978)
40 weeks
36 weeks
32 weeks
1 month
2 months
From Moorrees et al. (1963a), Figures 1,2, and 4.
Canines Molars
male
Frequency of Sample Age Categories
Dental formation stage distribution
Stages between birth and 1.5 months
Maxillary 1st molar
Dental formation stage distribution
Dr. Pat Richards for the opportunity to work on the project
Eric Burant, Shannon Freire, Adrienne Frie, Chris Hamlin, Alexis Jordan, Jessica Skinner, and David Strange for diligent analysis of the subadult remains
Thank you
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