Sex Assessment of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains
Sex Assessment of Fragmentary Skeletal Remains
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骨骼残片的性别评估
DOI：
10.1537/ase1911.94.289
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发表时间：
1986
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通讯作者：
M. Nagai
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作者：
T. Nakahashi;M. Nagai
为了确定人类骨骼残片的性别，对来自日本西部、近代、中世纪和新石器时代弥生时期的样本进行了判别函数分析，使用了对相对保存完好的骨骼部分进行 18 次测量。基于一到八个变量的总共 150 多个判别函数被应用于最近的样本，并且仅使用两到三个测量值的组合就可以以超过 90% 的准确度确定性别。当根据对近代日本人的测量计算出的判别函数系数应用于出土的骨骼遗骸时，它们被证明有助于确定吉茂滨遗址（15-16℃）样本的性别。对于弥生群体（公元前 300 年 - 公元 300 年），适当选择包含所研究群体之间差异相对较小的变量的判别函数，可以以较高的准确度进行可行的性别确定。当分别计算每个群体的判别函数时，发现测量结果对于所有研究群体的性别确定非常有用。此外，男性和女性平均测量值之间的中点组合方法在样本性别鉴定方面也显示出足够高的准确性。由于我们使用的方法不太受骨骼保存程度的影响，因此这些方法可用于确定含有保存不良材料的出土人体骨骼的性别。
To determine the sex of fragmentary human skeletal remains, discriminant function analysis using 18 measurements on relatively preservable parts of the skeleton was made on samples from western Japan, of recent, medieval and aeneolithic Yayoi periods. A total of over 150 discriminant functions based on one to eight variables were applied to recent samples and the sex could be determined with over 90% accuracy, using combinations of only two to three measurements. When the discriminant function coefficients calculated from measurements on the recent Japanese were applied to the excavated skeletal remains, they proved to be useful in sexing the samples from the Yoshimo-hama site (15-16C.). In case of the Yayoi population (300 B. C. -A. D. 300), a suitable selection of the discriminant functions containing the variables which showed relatively small differences among the populations studied made feasible sex determination at a high rate of accuracy. When the discriminant functions were calculated for each population respectively, the measurements were found to be highly useful for sex determination in all the populations studied. Furthermore, the combination method of midpoints between the male and female mean measurements also showed a sufficiently high accuracy in sexing the samples. Since the methods we used are not so influenced by the degree of bone preservation, these approaches can be used to determine the sex of excavated human skeletons containing poorly preserved materials.