Abstract
Facing the requirements of refined paleodemographical analyses, the access to the early ontogenetic sex ratio of skeletal populations is an important feature. Using raw data provided byFazekas & Kosa (1978) for a sample of known sex, discriminant functions are derived from hip and thigh bone dimensions that allow an almost unbiased classification of more than 70% of fetal and neonate individuals.
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Schutkowski, H. Sex determination of fetal and neonate skeletons by means of discriminant analysis. Int. J. Anthropol. 2, 347–352 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02443994
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