Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T13:09:36.540Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

24 - Back to the Root: The Coming of Age of Cementochronology

from Part III - Applications

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2022

By
Stephan Naji  and
William Rendu
Edited by
Stephan Naji ,
William Rendu  and
Lionel Gourichon
Stephan Naji
Affiliation:
New York University
William Rendu
Affiliation:
University of Bordeaux (CNRS)
Lionel Gourichon
Affiliation:
Université de Nice, Sophia Antipolis
Get access

Summary

Tremendous progress has been made since cementum analysis first applications in the 1950s. Today, with a better understanding of cementum biology, robust, replicable protocols support promising innovative research. Now, cementum should be considered within a broader evolutionary framework and cementogenesis tested from chronobiology theoretical assumptions to identify genetic or environmental variables affecting its circannual growth. With the rise of image analysis automation and optimization of species-specific standardized protocols, cementochronology is mature for site-level experiments. Also, the groundbreaking evolution of noninvasive, 3D cementochronology opens opportunities to study the fossil record, from stem-mammals to our Homo lineage. The breadth of applications across disciplines is a testament to cementochronology as a unique tool to investigate age and season at death, mobility patterns, life-history events, or mammalian evolutionwhich should be deployed broadly in anthropology. The goal of this volume is to promote collaborative efforts and stimulate interdisciplinary opportunities to renew diverse anthropology themes using cementum in anthropology.

Keywords

cementochronologycementumstress markersynchrotron micro-tomographyfluorescence3Dage estimatorage-at-deathseason-at-deathmobility
Type
Chapter
Information
Dental Cementum in Anthropology , pp. 379 - 393
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Azaz, B., Michaeli, Y., & Nitzan, D. (1977). Aging of tissues of the roots of nonfunctional human teeth (impacted canines). Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, and Oral Pathology 43(4), 572–78.Google Scholar
Azaz, B., Ulmansky, M., Moshev, R., & Sela, J. (1974). Correlation between age and thickness of cementum in impacted teeth. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology 38(5), 691–94.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Bertrand, B., Colard, T., Ramos Magalhaes, J., Cunha, E., & Hedouin, V. (2017). Computerized cementochronology taking the 16-bit between the teeth. American Journal of Physical Anthropology S64, 120.Google Scholar
Bertrand, B., Cunha, E., Bécart, A., Gosset, D., & Hédouin, V. (2019). Age at death estimation by cementochronology: Too precise to be true or too precise to be accurate? American Journal of Physical Anthropology 169(3), 464–81.Google Scholar
Bocquet-Appel, J.-P., & Bacro, J.-N. (2008). Estimation of an age distribution with its confidence intervals using an iterative bayesian procedure and a bootstrap sampling approach. In Bocquet-Appel, J.-P. (ed.), Recent Advances in Palaeodemography. The Netherlands: Springer, 63–82.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bocquet-Appel, J.-P., & Masset, C. (1982). Farewell to paleodemography. Journal of Human Evolution 11, 321–33.Google Scholar
Bogin, B. (2012). Chapter 11 – The evolution of human growth. In Human Growth and Development, 2nd ed. Boston: Academic Press, 287–324.Google Scholar
Boldsen, J. L., Milner, G. R., Konigsberg, L. W., & Wood, J. W. (2002). Transition analysis: A new method for estimating age from skeletons. In R. D. Hoppa & J. W. Vaupel (eds.), Paleodemography: age distributions from skeletal samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 73–106.Google Scholar
Buikstra, J. E., & Ubelaker, D. H. (1994). Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains: Proceedings of a Seminar at the Field Museum of Natural History, Organized by Jonathan Haas. Haas, J., Buikstra, J. E., Ubelaker, D. H., & Aftandilian, D. (eds.). Fayetteville: Arkansas Archeological Survey.Google Scholar
Burke, A. (1993). Applied skeletochronology: The horse as human prey during the Pleniglacial in Southwestern France. In Clarke, G. A. (ed.), Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 4, 145–50.Google Scholar
Caussinus, H., Buchet, L., Courgeau, D., & Séguy, I. (2017). Un problème clé de la paléodémographie: Comment estimer l’âge au décès? Journal de la Société Française de Statistique 158(2), 43–71.Google Scholar
Caussinus, H., & Courgeau, D. (2013). A new method for estimating age-at-death structure. In Handbook of Palaeodemography. New York: Springer International Publishing, 255–86.Google Scholar
Cerrito, P., Bailey, S. E., Hu, B., & Bromage, T. G. (2020). Parturitions, menopause and other physiological stressors are recorded in dental cementum microstructure. Scientific Reports 10(1), 5381.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Chariot, P., & Caussinus, H. (2015). Age estimation in undocumented migrant adolescents: Medical response to judicial authorities. La Presse Médicale 44(1), 99–100.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Colard, T., Bertrand, B., Naji, S., Delannoy, Y., & Bécart, A. 2015. Toward the adoption of cementochronology in forensic context. International Journal of Legal Medicine 129: 1–8.Google Scholar
Edinborough, M., Pilgrim, M., Fearn, S., … Edinborough, K. (2020). Mineralisation within human tooth cementum identified by secondary ion mass spectrometry. Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 35(6), 1199–1206.Google Scholar
Farr, J. N., & Almeida, M. (2018). The spectrum of fundamental basic science discoveries contributing to organismal aging. Journal of Bone and Mineral Research 33(9), 1568–84.Google Scholar
Gage, T. B. (1990). Variation and classification of human age patterns of mortality: Analysis using competing hazards models. Human Biology 62(5), 589–617.Google ScholarPubMed
Gordon, B. C. (1988). Of Men and Reindeer Herds in French Magdalenian Prehistory. Oxford: BAR Publishing.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Grue, H., & Jensen, B. (1979). Review of the formation of incremental lines in tooth cementum of terrestrial mammals. Danish Review of Game Biology 11, 1–48.Google Scholar
Hannum, G., Guinney, J., Zhao, L., … Zhang, K. (2013). Genome-wide methylation profiles reveal quantitative views of human aging rates. Molecular Cell 49(2), 359–67.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Helm, B., & Lincoln, G. A. (2017). Circannual rhythms anticipate the Earth’s annual periodicity. In Kumar, V. (ed.), Biological Timekeeping: Clocks, Rhythms and Behaviour. New Delhi: Springer India, 545–69.Google Scholar
Hoppa, R. D., & Vaupel, J. W. (2002). The Rostock Manifesto for paleodemography: The way from stage to age. In Hoppa, R. D. & Vaupel, J. W. (eds.), Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1–8.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Horvath, S. (2013). DNA methylation age of human tissues and cell types. Genome Biology 14(10), 1–20.Google Scholar
Horvath, S., & Raj, K. (2018). DNA methylation-based biomarkers and the epigenetic clock theory of ageing. Nature Reviews Genetics 19(6), 371–84.Google Scholar
Jylhävä, J., Pedersen, N. L., & Hägg, S. (2017). Biological age predictors. EBioMedicine, 21, 29–36.Google Scholar
Kemkes-Grottenthaler, A. (2002). Aging through the ages: Historical perspectives on age indicator methods. In Hoppa, R. D. & Vaupel, J. W. (eds.), Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 48–72.Google Scholar
Klevezal’, G. A. (1996). Recording Structures of Mammals: Determination of Age and Reconstruction of Life History. Rotterdam: A. A. Balkema Series.Google Scholar
Klevezal’, G. A., & Kleinenberg, S. E. (1967). Age Determination of Mammals from Annual Layers in Teeth and Bones. S.S.S.R: Akademiya Nauk.Google Scholar
Köhler, M., Marín-Moratalla, N., Jordana, X., & Aanes, R. (2012). Seasonal bone growth and physiology in endotherms shed light on dinosaur physiology. Nature 487(7407), 358–61.Google Scholar
Konigsberg, L. W. (2015). Multivariate cumulative probit for age estimation using ordinal categorical data. Annals of Human Biology 42(4), 368–78.Google Scholar
Konigsberg, L. W., Frankenberg, S. R., & Liversidge, H. M. (2016). Optimal trait scoring for age estimation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 159(4), 557–76.Google Scholar
Lee, H. Y., Lee, S. D., & Shin, K.-J. (2016). Forensic DNA methylation profiling from evidence material for investigative leads. BMB Reports, 49(7), 359–69.Google Scholar
Lehallier, B., Gate, D., Schaum, N., … Wyss-Coray, T. (2019). Undulating changes in human plasma proteome profiles across the lifespan. Nature Medicine 25(12), 1843–50.Google Scholar
Lieberman, D. E. (1993). Variability in hunter-gatherer seasonal mobility in the Southern Levant: From the Mousterian to the Natufian. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association 4, 207–19.Google Scholar
Lieberman, D. E. (1994). The biological basis for seasonal increments in dental cementum and their application to archaeological research. Journal of Archaeological Science 21, 525–39.Google Scholar
López-Otín, C., Blasco, M. A., Partridge, L., Serrano, M., & Kroemer, G. (2013). The hallmarks of aging. Cell 153(6), 1194–1217.Google Scholar
Mani-Caplazi, G., Hotz, G., Wittwer-Backofen, U., & Vach, W. (2019). Measuring incremental line width and appearance in the tooth cementum of recent and archaeological human teeth to identify irregularities: First insights using a standardized protocol. International Journal of Paleopathology 27, 24–37.Google Scholar
Mani-Caplazi, G., Schulz, G., Deyhle, H., … Müller, B. (2017). Imaging of the human tooth cementum ultrastructure of archeological teeth, using hard x-ray microtomography to determine age-at-death and stress periods. Conference paper. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2276148CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Matson, G. M., & Kerr, K. D. (1998). A method for dating tetracycline biomarkers in black bear cementum. Ursus 10, 455–8.Google Scholar
Matson, G., Van Daele, L., Goodwin, E., Aumiller, L., Reynolds, H., & Hristienko, H. (1993). A Laboratory Manual for Cementum Age Determination of Alaska Brown Bear PM1 Teeth. Milltown, Montana: Alaska Deptartment of Fish and Game, and Matson’s Laboratory.Google Scholar
Milner, G. R., & Boldsen, J. L. (2012). Transition analysis: A validation study with known-age modern American skeletons. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 148(1), 98–110.Google Scholar
Naji, S., Colard, T., Blondiaux, J., Bertrand, B., d’Incau, E., & Bocquet-Appel, J.-P. (2016). Cementochronology, to cut or not to cut? International Journal of Paleopathology 15, 113–9.Google Scholar
Newham, E. (2018). Exploring the use of tomography for the quantification of cementum growth patterns across the mammal phylogeny. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Southampton, Southampton.Google Scholar
Newham, E., Gill, P. G., Brewer, P., … Corfe, I. J. (2020). Reptile-like physiology in Early Jurassic stem-mammals. Nature Communications 11(1), 5121.Google Scholar
Nitzan, D. W., Michaeli, Y., Weinreb, M., & Azaz, B. (1986). The effect of aging on tooth morphology: A study on impacted teeth. Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology 61(1), 54–60.Google Scholar
Padian, K., de Boef Miara, M., Larsson, H. C. E., Wilson, L., & Bromage, T. (2013). Research applications and integration. In Padian, K. & Lamm, E.-T. (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods. Oakland: University of California Press, 265–85.Google Scholar
Pike-Tay, A. (1991). Red Deer Hunting in the Upper Paleolithic of Southwest France: A Study in Seasonality. Oxford: Tempus Reparatum.Google Scholar
Rai, B. (2009). Effect of nutrition on coronal displacement of cementum in impacted teeth. Annals of Human Biology 36(4), 431–6.Google Scholar
Sahara, N. (2014). Development of coronal cementum in hypsodont horse cheek teeth: Coronal cementogenesis in horse cheek teeth. The Anatomical Record 297(4), 716–30.Google Scholar
Sánchez-Hernández, C., Gourichon, L., Pubert, E., Rendu, W., Montes, R., & Rivals, F. (2019). Combined dental wear and cementum analyses in ungulates reveal the seasonality of Neanderthal occupations in Covalejos Cave (Northern Iberia). Scientific Reports 9(1), 14335.Google Scholar
Séguy, I., Caussinus, H., Courgeau, D., & Buchet, L. (2013). Estimating the age structure of a buried adult population: A new statistical approach applied to archaeological digs in France. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 150(2), 170–83.Google Scholar
Temple, D. H. (2018). Bioarchaeological evidence for adaptive plasticity and constraint: Exploring life-history trade-offs in the human past. Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21754Google Scholar
Usher, B. M. (2002). Reference samples: The first step in linking biology and age in the human skeleton. In Hoppa, R. D. & Vaupel, J. W. (eds.), Paleodemography: Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 29–47.Google Scholar
Wedel, V. L. (2007). Determination of season at death using dental cementum increment analysis. Journal of Forensic Sciences 52(6), 1334–7.Google Scholar
Wedel, V. L., & Wescott, D. J. (2016). Using dental cementum increment analysis to estimate age and season of death in African Americans from an historical cemetery in Missouri. International Journal of Paleopathology 15, 134–9.Google Scholar
Wittwer-Backofen, U. (2012). Age estimation using tooth cementum annulation. In Bell, L. S. (ed.), Forensic Microscopy for Skeletal Tissues, vol. 915. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 129–43.Google Scholar
Wittwer-Backofen, U., & Buba, H. (2002). Age estimation by tooth cementum annulation: Perspective of a new validation study. In Hoppa, R. D. & Vaupel, J. W. (eds.), Paleodemography, Age Distributions from Skeletal Samples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 107–28.Google Scholar
Wittwer-Backofen, U., Gampe, J., & Vaupel, J. W. (2004). Tooth cementum annulation for age estimation: Results from a large known-age validation study. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 123(2), 119–29.Google Scholar
Woodward, H. N., Padian, K., & Andrew, L. H. (2013). Skeletochronology. In K. Padian & E.-T. Lamm (eds.), Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing Methods, Analysis, and Interpretation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 195–215.Google Scholar

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×