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International Journal of Legal Medicine
Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine 1/2018

01-01-2018 | Original Article

Stability of upper face sexual dimorphism in central European populations (Czech Republic) during the modern age

Authors: Šárka Bejdová, Ján Dupej, Václav Krajíček, Jana Velemínská, Petr Velemínský

Published in: International Journal of Legal Medicine | Issue 1/2018

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Abstract

One of the most fundamental issues in forensic anthropology is the determination of sex and population affinity based on various skeletal elements. Therefore, we compared the sexual dimorphism of the upper facial skeleton from a recent Czech population (twenty-first century) with that of a population from Early Modern Age Bohemia (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries). Methods of geometric morphometrics were applied. According to the results, sexual dimorphism in terms of size, shape, and form was statistically significant in both populations. The best results of sex estimation originated from analyses of form. Thus, both size and shape differences should be taken into account for determination of the sex. The accuracy of prediction achieved 91.1% for individuals in the recent population and 87.5% for individuals from the early modern population. Only minor differences were found between sexual dimorphism in the studied populations. We conclude that sexual dimorphism of the upper facial skeleton is stable during the relatively short time period.
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Metadata
Title
Stability of upper face sexual dimorphism in central European populations (Czech Republic) during the modern age
Authors
Šárka Bejdová
Ján Dupej
Václav Krajíček
Jana Velemínská
Petr Velemínský
Publication date
01-01-2018
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
International Journal of Legal Medicine / Issue 1/2018
Print ISSN: 0937-9827
Electronic ISSN: 1437-1596
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00414-017-1625-3

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