What Teeth Can Tell Us About Age: A Q&A with ISHI Student Ambassador Maria Josefina Castagnola
In forensic anthropology, age estimation from adult skeletal remains is one of the field’s harder problems. Classical methods lose accuracy as people get older, and biological fluids — the tissue base for most methylation-based age estimation research — aren’t always what a scene gives you. Maria Josefina Castagnola, a PhD student at New Jersey Institute […]