Population particularities of sexual dimorphism of anthropometric traits and sex determination in skeletons from the Most Minorite monastery.
2010
Abstract
An iterative approach in sex determination was applied on the collection of human remains from the Late Medieval Most Minorite monastery. It consists of a primary diagnosis based on pelvic-bone and a secondary diagnosis based on extra-pelvic measurements with a calculation of posterior probabilities with which each skeleton is attributed to the reference (primary diagnosed) sample.
By means of this strategy we have solved the question whether also females were buried in the Minorite monastery. We are able to unanimously state that the collection of human bones contains a similar proportion of male and female remains.