| Autor: |
John J. Crandall, Kathryn M. Baustian, Debra L. Martin |
| Rok vydání: |
2015 |
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| Zdroj: |
The International Encyclopedia of Human Sexuality |
| Popis: |
The responsive nature of bone to internal programming by growth and sex hormones, as well as to functional pressures from outside of the body, provides a number of clues as to how to use bone to assess a wide variety of indicators of identity. Here an overview of the human skeleton as a sexually dimorphic biological tissue is provided. A summary of techniques used to estimate biological sex from human remains in both forensic and archaeological contexts is offered. Current issues in the fomentation of methods are discussed. Theoretical and methodological issues in the development and application of sex determination methods are reviewed. Finally, an overview of the ways in which skeletal sex estimation has been important to recent social science research is presented. Keywords: forensic anthropology; human skeleton; sex determination; sexual dimorphism |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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