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Dental Age in Adults — A Review of Estimation Methods

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Time is a wicked thing. It has no tangible substance, and yet it has an extremely solid autonomy, advancing ever so constantly. And, most wickedly, its correlation to other things is often lamentably weak. This weak interdependence between time and many other natural phenomena is the cardinal reason for the difficulties which exist in human biology in assessing the two variables historic dating of human remains and age at death. In particular the problem of age estimation has been approached by many methods developed in the last decades — which illustrates that the existing techniques were always insufficient.

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    Friedrich W. Rösing

  3. Department of Anthropology, Museum of Natural History Vienna, Vienna, Austria

    Maria Teschler-Nicola

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Rösing, F.W., Kvaal, S.I. (1998). Dental Age in Adults — A Review of Estimation Methods. In: Alt, K.W., Rösing, F.W., Teschler-Nicola, M. (eds) Dental Anthropology. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7496-8_22

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