The impact of aging method on the age-at-death distribution: a case of medieval Staraya Ladoga skeletal sample-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The impact of aging method on the age-at-death distribution: a case of medieval Staraya Ladoga skeletal sample

Published:2024-09-15 Issue:3(66) Volume: Page:127-138
ISSN:2071-0437
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Author:

Shirobokov I.G.¹^ORCID,Pavlova M.S.²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography RAS

2. Institute of History of Material Culture RAS

Abstract

The problem of estimating age-at-death structures using different methods is examined through the medieval skeletal sample from Staraya Ladoga. A comparative analysis of age estimates obtained using traditional age determination methods and a new method proposed by a group of British and American researchers, Transition Analysis 3 (TA3), was carried out. The skeletal distributions were compared with those based on data from pre-industrial societies. The age-at-death distributions under TA3 showed significant similarity to data from Russia in the second half of the 19th century. The average age of death estimated within the traditional approach was 24,6 years, and among those who died older than 15 years, it was 41,1 years. The adjusted estimates from TA3 were 27,7 and 48,4 years, respectively. Employing the regression model proposed by J.P. Bocquet-Appel, a rough esti-mate of the life expectancy (e0) of medieval inhabitants of Staraya Ladoga was derived, considering the juvenility index and the estimated rate of natural increase. The most likely value of the e0 is in the range of 22–30 years.

Publisher

Tyumen Scientific Center of the SB RAS

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