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  • 23 - Shaping Age-at-Death Distributions by Applying Tooth Cementum Analysis to the Early Medieval Graveyard of Lauchheim (Germany)

  • from Part III - Applications
  • Edited by Stephan Naji, New York University, William Rendu, Lionel Gourichon, Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis
  • Book:
    Dental Cementum in Anthropology
    Published online:
    20 January 2022
    Print publication:
    10 February 2022, pp 364-378

  • Summary

    The paleodemography analysis of the Early medieval Lauchheim cemetery (Germany) was conducted to reconstruct the age-at-death distribution of 789 adults with preserved teeth using the Tooth Cementum Annulation (TCA) method, and the analysis of individual morphological age markers (MAE) for those without teeth. Aggregating TCA and MAE results revealed specific mortality peaks for males in their early fifties. After a mortality peak in their early forties, females surviving their fertile age group seemed to benefit from a resilience pattern that allows them to survive longer than their male counterparts. The mean life expectancy for females was below male life expectancy, whereas the oldest age group above 70 years of age included females only. In conclusion, TCA shows a more diverse age-at-death distribution without MAE inherent effects. Thus, it could be argued that TCA allows us to complement osteological age estimations and shape age at death distributions to understand demographic processes in premodern societies better.