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Promises and limitations of current ancient human epigenetic clocks

2026-02-05

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<h4>SUMMARY</h4> Age-at-death estimation of archaeological human remains is central to palaeodemographic research yet remains particularly challenging for adults where osteological methods often produce imprecise age ranges. Epigenetic clocks can accurately predict chronological age in modern humans, but their applicability to ancient human DNA is unclear due to data limitation and indirect methylation inference....

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721c5121-82b7-599c-8b79-bf4663e138b3
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10.64898/2026.02.04.703756
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