Among other things, we are currently busy finalizing our osteological protocols—and THAT doesn't make it any easier to estimate age at death from skeletons that are missing the 💀... Fortunately, there is some expertise in #bayesianmodeling on the team as well 🦴🧑‍💻😮‍💨 #paleodemography #humanosteology

A tool for non‐parametric approximation of mortality in skeletal samples of imprecise age estimations Imprecise data produced by commonly applied osteological age-at-death estimations profoundly affect all research on age-dependent mortality in past societies. With uncertain death estimation (UCD), w....

Happy to share my paper for everyone interested in #demography providing a tool to estimate #mortality in #archaeological populations without assumptions about patterns of mortality from imprecise age estimations
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(This is pretty good. It has not got enough eyeballs yet. ) The Human Race adultsincharge.blog/2023/11/30/t... #prehistory #Pleistocene #Neanderthal #evolution #paleoanthropology #paleodemography #protohistory #bioarchaeology #Genetics