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Microstructural patterns of bones and biological age of humans from Sunghir site

Dobrovol’skaya M.V., Mednikova M.B.

Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117036, st. Dm. Ulyanova, 19, Moscow, Russia

Dobrovol’skaya Mariya Vsevolodovna, Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-9695-4199, e-mail: mk_pa@mail.ru; Mednikova Maria B, Ph.D., D.Sc. , ORCID ID: 0000-0002-1918-2161, e-mail: medma_pa@mail.ru

Abstract

The use of modern technical tools and conceptual approaches to the determination of the biologi-cal age of the individuals from the Upper Paleolithic burials is the important problem in modern anthro-pology. The materials of this study were the tubular bones of the two Upper Palaeolithic males (## 1 and 4) of the world famous burials from Sunghir site. New individual ages have been estimated based on the methods of age determining of the histological structure in compact bone diaphysis of long bones. Bio-logical age of both men is within 35-44 years at death.

Keywords

anthropology, paleoanthropology, Upper Palaeolithic, Sunghir site, histological age, light and X-ray microscopy

Цит.: Dobrovol’skaya M.V., Mednikova M.B. Microstructural patterns of bones and biological age of humans from Sunghir site // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2015; 4/2015; с. 66-72