Developmental trajectories, traumatic injuries and decompositional histories of the juvenile human skeleton

自然历史学家，即古生物学家、考古学家和法医人类学家，长期以来一直在从青少年人类骨骼遗骸中重建生活史、死亡环境和埋葬环境。对现代环境中幼年骨骼遗骸的形态学评估表明，骨骼的变化和可塑性可以用现在观察到的生态和新学模式和过程来解释，以更好地理解过去。这个研究项目是第一次将不同的实验和理论方法整合在一起，这些方法是在actuopalontology研究的保护伞下统一的。

Natural history scientists, namely paleontologists, archaeologists and forensic anthropologists, have been reconstructing life-histories, circumstances of death and burial environments from juvenile human skeletal remains for a long time. Morphological assessment of juvenile skeletal remains in modern environments shows that variation in and plasticity of the skeleton may be explained in terms of ecological and neotaphonomic patterns and processes observed in the present to better understand the past. This research program is a first effort to integrate different experimental and theoretical approaches about the juvenile human skeleton that are united under the umbrella of actuopaleontological studies.