DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH VOLUME 38, ARTICLE 65, PAGES 2053,2072 PUBLISHED 26 JUNE 2018 http://www.demographic-research.org/Volumes/Vol38/65/ DOI: 10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.65 Research Article A synthetic measure of mortality using skeletal data from ancient cemeteries: The d index Irene Barbiera Maria Castiglioni Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna © 2018 Barbiera, Castiglioni & Dalla Zuanna. This open-access work is published under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Germany (CC BY 3.0 DE), which permits use, reproduction, and distribution in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are given credit. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/de/legalcode.