Ref ID:	24636
Ref Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Cook, Della C.
Title:	Mortality, age structure and status in the interpretation of stress indicators in prehistoric skeletons: a dental example from the lower Illinois Valley
Date:	1981
Source:	The archaeology of death
Place of Publication:	Cambridge
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Abstract:	Provides an analysis of enamel defects in Middle Woodland skeletal series from Illinois. Comparison of stess indicator frequencies in the skeletal samples were age structured with only small age difference patterns occurring. The point is made that this smal difference may result from differential recovery or from differential inclusion in particular mortuary contexts. The effect of mortality on the frequency of a stress indicator can be domenstrated, the dead should be compared with the dead, not with the living. pg 134 A skeletal collection is \imortality sample\i of the living population from which it came. The frequency of a stress indicator in such a sample will reflect: 1) the frequency of the indicator in the living population 2) the age structure of the indicator in the living population as it interacts with age-specific death rates 3) the interaction between causes of death adn the frequency of the indicator and 4) differential distinctions based on age, status, and cause of death.
Date Created:	7/5/2001
Editors:	Chapman, Robert Kinnes, Ian Randsborg, Klavas
Page Start:	133
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