Gowland, R. L. and Chamberlain, A. T. (2002). A Bayesian approach to ageing perinatal skeletal material from archaeological sites:. J Archaeol Sci 29 (6). Vol 29(6), pp. 677-685.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
A Bayesian approach to ageing perinatal skeletal material from archaeological sites: | |||||
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implications for the evidence for infanticide in Roman-Britain | |||||
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J Archaeol Sci 29 (6) | |||||
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Journal of Archaeological Science | |||||
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29 (6) | |||||
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677 - 685 | |||||
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Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
The skeletal remains of substantial numbers of perinatal human infants have been excavated from within a variety of archaeological contexts dating to the Romano-British period. It has been argued that the distribution of ages at death of these infants, which appears to exhibit a pronounced neonatal peak, provides evidence for infanticide. This study re-evaluates the osteological evidence for infanticide in Roman Britain by first identifying biases in traditional techniques for estimating the age of perinatal skeletons and then using a Bayesian procedure to reassess the ages at deaths of almost 400 infants from a number of Roman sites throughout England. We conclude that the apparent peak in neonatal mortality shown by earlier investigations is an artefact of regression-based age estimation. The distribution of ages at death in Romano-British infants is similar to a natural mortality profile. | |||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
2002 | |||||
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13 Jan 2003 |
