Test of the lateral angle method of sex estimation on Anglo‐Saxon and medieval archaeological populations with genetically estimated sex

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ID8354599
AutoresJ Eric Thompson (0000-0002-9389-0545, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research Cambridge UK, autor correspondente), Sarah Inskip (0000-0001-7424-2094, School of Archaeology and Ancient History University of Leicester Leicester UK), Christiana Scheib (0000-0003-4158-8296, Institute of Genomics University of Tartu Tartu Estonia), Jessica Bates (0000-0002-0854-2205, Department of Archaeology University of York York UK), Xiangyu Ge (0009-0008-2341-8051, Open Targets, Wellcome Genome Campus Cambridgeshire UK), J Griffith (0000-0003-3546-9020, Institute of Genomics University of Tartu Tartu Estonia), Samuel J Griffith (0009-0001-2335-9054, University of Tartu), Anthony Wilder Wohns (0000-0001-7353-1177, Stanford University School of Medicine Palo Alto California USA), John E Robb (Department of Archaeology University of Cambridge Cambridge UK), John Robb (0000-0002-7987-4549, University of Cambridge)
Ano2024
Volume66
Fascículo2
Páginas445-457
Data de publicação2024-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoArchaeometry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-813X • E-ISSN: 1475-4754
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/arcm.12927
OpenAlexW4387312192
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas24

The lateral angle method of sex estimation is tested on an archaeological population with genetic sex estimates. Casts of the internal auditory canal were made using a quick drying impression material on 90 individuals (76 adults and 14 nonadults) from Anglo‐Saxon and Medieval Cambridgeshire. The anterior and posterior angles of the internal auditory canal were measured, and the relationship of the angle to genetic sex was tested. The posterior angle failed intra‐observer error tests, and only the anterior angle could be analysed. Using the previously published sectioning point for unburnt remains (45°), the method did not adequately distinguish between the sexes. Furthermore, the difference between male and female was insufficient to create population‐specific discriminant functions. The anterior angle does not meet the requirements for an osteological method of sex estimation, exhibiting no statistical correlation with genetic sex in this population

Auditory canal · Biology · Estimation · Population · Sociology · Statistics · Anatomy · Demography · Engineering · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Mathematics · Medicine · Orthodontics