Sentences with phrase «age skeletal material»

Another chapter, «Bones and the law», has a particularly misleading title since, instead of being devoted to forensic cases, or to the thorny problem of objections by indigenous peoples to the disturbance of their ancestors» remains (a topic not even alluded to), it is merely a detailed account of how far you can sex and age skeletal material.

Not exact matches

It was, however, difficult to exactly determine the age of the human skeletal material using conventional radiocarbon dating, because the collagen in the bones had been completely washed out due to the long period spent in water.