Estimation of mortality profiles from non-adult human skeletons in Edo-period Japan

Reconstruction of the mortality profiles of non-adult human skeletons from an archeological site should greatly assist the interpretation of the sanitation, health, disease, and behavior of past human populations. The purposes of this study are to examine non-adult skeletons from the Sakai-kango-toshi 871 (SKT 871) site in Edo-period (17–19th centuries AD) Japan, to estimate their age-at-death distribution, and to discuss whether...