Sexual dimorphism in human browridge volume measured from 3D models of dry crania: a new digital morphometrics approach

BM Shearer, SB Sholts, HM Garvin… - Forensic science …, 2012 - Elsevier
Sex estimation from the human skull is often a necessary step when constructing a
biological profile from unidentified human remains. Traditional methods for determining the …

Sexual dimorphism and regional variation in human frontal bone inclination measured via digital 3D models

A Petaros, HM Garvin, SB Sholts, S Schlager… - Legal Medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
The frontal bone is one of the most sexually dimorphic elements of the human skull, due to
features such as the glabella, frontal eminences, and frontal inclination. While glabella is …

Evaluating sexual dimorphism in the human mastoid process: A viewpoint on the methodology

A Petaros, SB Sholts, M Slaus, A Bosnar… - Clinical …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The mastoid process is one of the most sexually dimorphic features in the human skull, and
is therefore often used to identify the sex of skeletons. Numerous techniques for assessing …

CT evaluation of timing for ossification of the medial clavicular epiphysis in a contemporary Western Australian population

D Franklin, A Flavel - International journal of legal medicine, 2015 - Springer
The clavicle is the first bone to ossify in the developing embryo and the last to complete
epiphyseal union. It is the latter sustained period of growth that has attracted the interest of …

Quantification of pubic symphysis metamorphosis based on the analysis of clinical MDCT scans in a contemporary Malaysian population

S Hisham, N Abdullah… - Journal of forensic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Forensic age estimation methods are biased to sex and population; in general, accuracy is
reduced when applied to foreign populations. This study assessed the accuracy of the …

Sexual dimorphism in mastoid process volumes measured from 3D models of dry crania from medieval Croatia

A Petaros, SB Sholts, M Čavka, M Slaus… - bioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
ABSTRACT 3D analysis of skeletal volumes has become an important field in digital
anthropology studies. The volume of the mastoid process has been proposed to display …

[PDF][PDF] Sex determination by three-dimensional geometric morphometrics of the palate and cranial base.

ME Chovalopoulou, ED Valakos… - Anthropologischer …, 2013 - academia.edu
The purpose of this study is to assess sexual dimorphism in the palate and base of adult
crania using three-dimensional geometric morphometric methods. The study sample …

[PDF][PDF] Sex determination by three-dimensional geometric morphometrics of craniofacial form.

ME Chovalopoulou, ED Valakos… - Anthropologischer …, 2016 - academia.edu
The purpose of the present study is to define which regions of the cranium, the upper-face,
the orbits and the nasal are the most sexually dimorphic, by using three-dimensional …

Age estimation accuracies from black South African os coxae

M Jones, G Gordon, D Brits - Homo, 2018 - Elsevier
The accurate estimation of age is considered important from an ethical, legal and
archaeological perspective. Among the numerous methods based on macroscopic skeletal …

Evaluation of the Suchey–Brooks age estimation method in a white South African population

LC Joubert, N Briers, A Meyer - Forensic science international, 2019 - Elsevier
Several studies have indicated that the time of onset of specific age-related changes
throughout the human skeleton differs between populations. In this study the well-known …