Accurate adult age
at death is basic to skeletal biology - to palaeodemography,
to palaeopathology, to studies of dental pathology and
attrition:
if we cannot estimate adult age accurately, we are in big
trouble!

- 1985 Pubic
symphysis age distributions. American Journal of
Physical Anthropology 68: 281-299
it is the methods of age
assessment, rather than the characteristics of skeletal
samples, which determine age estimations (link)
erratum: page
297 17(0.223)
- 1992
Paleodemography: problems and techniques. In
S.R. Saunders and M.A. Katzenberg (eds.), Skeletal
Biology of Past Peoples: Research Methods,
pp. 189-224. New York: Wiley-Liss
we need
increased emphasis on detailed studies of
dentitions for adult age assessment and a clear
idea of the limitations of palaeodemography (link)
erratum:
pages
216-217 r = should not be percentage
- 1993
On paradox and osteology. Current
Anthropology 34(4): 434-439
reaction
to a statement that adult age assessment
is no longer an important issue in
osteology (link)
- 1994
Birth rates and bones. In A. Herring and
L. Chan (eds.), Strength in
Diversity: a Reader in Physical
Anthropology Toronto: Canadian
Scholar's Press, pp. 155-185
using
ethnohistory to test whether skeletal
biologists can make useful estimates of
birth rates (link)
- 2000
Building the bases for paleodemographic
analysis: adult age determination. In
M.A. Katzenberg and S.R. Saunders
(eds.), Biological Anthropology of
the Human Skeleton, pp. 407-456.
New York: John Wiley and Sons
I was
asked to write a paper on assessing the
age at death of adults: I propose a new
way of thinking about age changes, and
look at suggestions that have been made
for dealing with problems of adult age
assessment and taphonomy (link)
(reply
to criticism)
- 2000
Ethnohistory and osteology in southern
Ontario. In The Entangled Past:
Integrating History and Archaeology.
Papers of the 30th Annual Chacmool
Conference Calgary: Archaeological
Association, University of Calgary
using
ethnohistory to show that skeletal
biologists have underestimated longevity
(link)
NB:
Table 2 footnote a, page 174 notes
that the Carrier's (1958) formula for r
(rate of increase) contained an error, and
that I calculate r differently
from date of the 27th Chacmool Conference
in November, 1997
- 2002
Jackes, M. Review of R.D. Hoppa and J.W.
Vaupel (eds.) Palaeodemography: Age
Distributions from Skeletal
Samples. American Journal of Human
Biology 14 (6): 792-795 (link)
- 2003
Jackes, M. Testing a Method:
Paleodemography and proportional
fitting. American Journal
of Physical Anthropology
121:385-386 (link)
- Jackes, M., M.
Roksandic and
C. Meiklejohn The demography of
the Djerdap Mesolithic/Neolithic
transition. In Clive Bonsall,
Vasile Boroneant and Ivana
Radovanovic (eds.), The Iron
Gates in Prehistory: new
perspectives. BAR
International Series 1893.
Oxford: Archaeopress, pp. 77-88.
(Djerdap)
one
of several papers on the question
of whether it is possible to
discern differences in fertility
between the Mesolithic and the
Neolithic in Europe
- Jackes,
M. and C. Meiklejohn 2004
Building a method for the
study of the
Mesolithic-Neolithic
transition in Portugal.
In M. Budja (ed.), Neolithic
Studies 11, Documenta
Praehistorica 31: 89-111.
(Ljubljana)
looks especially at
the particular problems
presented by Cabeço da Arruda, a
famous site of the Portuguese
Mesolithic
Moita further
information on this available in
poster presented at Muge 150th: 150th
anniversary of the discovery of the Mesolithic
shellmiddens, Salvaterra de Magos, Portugal, March
2013.
unpublished paper
detailing the total fertility rate estimation
method LINK
Link to
information on dental attrition coding
link
to historical demography site
link
to palaeodemography site
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