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As children's bones are not fused yet, they have more bones than adult individuals. The structure of the bone inventory could be kept in the same way though, in my opinion.
Possibilities I can think of:

• make an extra inventory that can be used when dealing with subadult individuals (choose which inventory to use on the anthro tools overview)
• add children's extra bone part into the existing bone inventory, maybe with a sort of switch, so the only show up, when needed
• make all bones available in one inventory and let researchers fill out what they have - e.g. for a mandible the mandible as a whole could be one item in the list as it is just one bone for everyone older than 2 years, and add a category under mandible that represents the left and right mandible in an neonate

Either way, it would help to fill the age-related Knochenmännchen (see attachment) when recording child specific bones in the inventory.

Maybe we could ask FemCare for sample data to see what they recorded for children in the inventory especially to see what different kind of structure they use for subadult bones