Bayesian probability weaning age estimates of sub-adults from Canimar Abajo, Cuba
Author(s): Yadira Chinique de Armas; Bill Buhay; Roberto Rodriguez Suarez; Mirjana Roksandic; David Smith
Year: 2015
Summary
Bone collagen from thirty-two sub-adults (between 0 and 5 years old) and eighteen adult females, excavated from two cemeteries at Canimar Abajo, Cuba (occupied between 1130±110 BCE and 580±120 CE) were analyzed for carbon and nitrogen isotopic compositions and then used in two open source Bayesian probability mixing models (Stable Isotope analysis in R, SIAR; Weaning Age Reconstruction with Nitrogen isotopes, WARN) to estimate weaning ages. The weaning age estimates are complimentary between the two models averaging approximately 2 years of age. This estimate is consistent with other pre-historic weaning age estimates in and around the Caribbean.
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Bayesian probability weaning age estimates of sub-adults from Canimar Abajo, Cuba. Bill Buhay, Yadira Chinique de Armas, Mirjana Roksandic, Roberto Rodriguez Suarez, David Smith. Presented at The 80th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, San Francisco, California. 2015 ( tDAR id: 396628)
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