Аннотация:A comparative analysis of modern methods in age osteography. On the basis of the author's own observations, various methods of age assessment with the help of radiographs of the hand are compared and their information on populational investigations in anthropology is discussed. The authors propose a diagram of age monitoring through changes in the form and structure of hand ray phalanges (from the 2nd to the 5th one - 12 bones in all) according to their five types: osteophytes, porosis, sclerosis, articulate deformations and exostosises. On the basis of more than 7000 personal observations, the authors propose equations of age regression which can permit reconstructing the individual's age according to the number of changes in his/her hand bones.