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Título: Sex determination by discriminant function analysis of the right tibia in the prehispanic population of the Canary Islands
Autores/as: Gonzaléz-Reimers, E.
Velasco Vázquez, Francisco Javier 
Arnay-De-La-Rosa, M.
Santolaria-Fernández, F.
Clasificación UNESCO: 32 Ciencias médicas
51 Antropología
550501 Arqueología
Palabras clave: Atlatinc Islands
Confidence Intervals
Discriminant Analysis
Epiphyses / anatomy
Female, et al.
Fecha de publicación: 2000
Editor/a: 0379-0738
Publicación seriada: Forensic Science International 
Resumen: This study has been performed in order to define standards usable to determine the sex of prehispanic individuals from the Canary Islands from their skeletal remains. Osteometric information at the right tibia was obtained from 59 complete skeletons from Gran Canaria, housed in the Museo Canario (Las Palmas), 45 males and 14 females (this constitutes the totality of complete prehispanic skeletons known from Gran Canaria). The parameters measured were: tibial length, proximal and distal epiphyseal breadth, transverse and anteroposterior diameter, perimeter at the nutrition foramen levels and minimum shaft perimeter. These parameters were subjected to different SPSS discriminant function analysis, combining all of them, or only the proximal or distal ones, without tibial length, etc., in order to obtain functions usable even if only bone fragments are available. Transverse diameter, proximal epiphyseal breadth and minimum shaft perimeter showed the highest discriminant power. The functions obtained showed high average accuracies, ranging from 94.9 to 98.3%, with female accuracies of 100%. The functions obtained were further applied to a test prehispanic population (ten males and ten females) from El Hierro. Overall accuracies of the functions when applied to this population ranged from 65 to 94.7%, with female accuracies ranging 80% to 100%.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10553/52306
ISSN: 0379-0738
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(99)00205-4
Fuente: Forensic Science International[ISSN 0379-0738],v. 108, p. 165-172
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