New Method of Identifying Family Related Skulls

1. Introduction.- 2. Scientific Hypotheses.- 3. Methodology of Work.- 3.1. Historiographic methods.- 3.1.1. History of the Counts of Celje.- 3.1.2. From biographies of the Counts of Celje.- 3.2. Identification methods.- 3.2.1. Use of identification methods for determining gender by skulls.- 3.2.1.1. Morphological characters for determining gender.- 3.2.1.2. Determining gender by anthropometrie methods and indices.- 3.2.1.3. Determining gender by forensic-dental methods.- 3.2.2. Use of identification methods for determining age by skull.- 3.2.2.1. Determining age by obliteration of the endocranial sutures.- 3.2.2.2. Determining age considering obliteration of the ectocranial sutures.- 3.2.2.3. Determining age by X-ray methods.- 3.2.2.4. Determining age by forensic-dental methods.- 3.2.2.5. Determining age by radioactive carbon 14C.- 3.2.3. Use of identification methods for determining cause of illness by skull.- 3.2.3.1. Paleopathological methods.- 3.2.4. Use of identification methods for determining family linkage between skulls.- 3.2.4.1. Genetic methods.- 3.2.4.2. Epigenetic methods.- 3.2.4.2.1. Comparison of the facial cavities.- 3.2.4.2.2. Other epigenetic traits.- 3.2.5. Art history methods for reconstructing soft facial parts.- 4 RESULTS.- 4.1. Historiographic results.- 4.1.1. Genealogical and biographical data for those presumably buried in the family vault.- 4.1.2. Historically expected interments in the family vault.- 4.1.2.1. Interment chronology of male members of the family of the Counts of Celje.- 4.1.2.2. Interment chronology of female members of the family of the Counts of Celje.- 4.1.2.3. Common interment chronology of all members of the family.- 4.1.3. Anticipated age of the interred in the family vault.- 4.1.4. Members of the family, interred elsewhere.- 4.2. Identification results.- 4.2.1. Gender, age and illnesses by skulls 1-18.- 4.2.1.1. Skull 1.- 4.2.1.2. Skull 2.- 4.2.1.3. Skull 3.- 4.2.1.4. Skull 4.- 4.2.1.5. Skull 5.- 4.2.1.6. Skull 6.-