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Greater sciatic notch morphology: Sex, age, and population differences
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The accuracy of a method for visually scoring sex differences in the greater sciatic notch was tested on 296 skeletons of known age and sex. The proportion of correct sex assignments is 80% when all specimens are classified, and 89% when os coxae assigned the score in which the sexes show the greatest overlap are excluded. Although many os coxae (35%) have this sexually intermediate morphology, excluding them has the advantage of substantially reducing sex biases in sexing errors. For both sexes, there is a strong relationship between age at death and sciatic notch score. People who die at a younger age tend to have wider, more feminine-appearing sciatic notches than people of greater longevity. There are also significant population differences. The 18th-19th century English sample from St. Bride's Church has a more feminine morphology than Americans of European or African ancestry. Environmental influences on skeletal development (vitamin D deficiency) appear to provide the most likely explanation for these population differences.
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- Authors
- Walker, P. L.
- Affiliations
- University of California, Santa Barbara (US)
- Corresponding author
- Walker, Phillip L.
- Venue
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2005-08
- Volume
- 127
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 385-391
- ISSN
- 0002-9483 (ISSN-L)
- 1096-8644
- OpenAlex
- W2084919564
- Semantic Scholar
- ccac84a44d92db78e9eb17e7fa8bfc81d8157a21
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- FWCI
- 53.48
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- American Journal of Physical Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Smithsonian Institution
- Leverhulme Trust
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Forensic and Genetic Research
- Keywords
- greater sciatic notch, sex determination, age at death, skeletal morphology, os coxal, population differences, skeletal development, vitamin D deficiency
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Age Factors, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Anthropology, Physical, Anthropometry, Europe, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Pelvic Bones, Sex Characteristics, United States, Population Groups
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