On the Threshold of Adulthood: A New Approach for the Use of Maturation Indic…

Objectives: This study provides the first large scale analysis of the age at which adolescents in medieval England entered and completed the pubertal growth spurt. This new method has implications for expanding our knowledge of adolescent maturation across different time periods and regions. Methods: In total, 994 adolescent skeletons (10–25 years) from four urban sites in medieval England…