Les sutures crâniennes ont-elles encore une place dans l'évaluation de l'âge au décès ?

As forensic anthropologists should study all the skeletal remains he receives, it is interesting to investigate various and little or not at all explored craniofacial sutures. Firstly, we studied the palatine sutures by adapting the methodology suggested by Mann [25-27]. We introduced an appreciation by sutural segments, based on a semi-quantitative observation in five degrees of obliteration, following the traditional classification of Broca, Nemeskéri or Perizonius [I, 7, 38, 47]. In addition, some viscerocranial sutures were the subject of a simplified approach, based on four degrees as defined by Meindl and Lovejoy [34]. Finally, we propose some mean coefficients of sutural obliteration but also some multiple linear equations of regression, in order to appreciate this particular sutural evolution and to prove their usefulness, though knowing the limits of the cranial sutures as regards of the age at death determination.SCOPUS: ar.j