A review of sex estimation techniques during examination of skeletal remains in forensic anthropology casework

K Krishan, PM Chatterjee, T Kanchan, S Kaur… - Forensic science …, 2016 - Elsevier
Sex estimation is considered as one of the essential parameters in forensic anthropology
casework, and requires foremost consideration in the examination of skeletal remains …

Proximal femur in biological profile estimation–Current knowledge and future directions

P Rattanachet - Legal Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
This review presents an overview of the forensic utilities of the proximal femur in the existing
literature. The proximal epiphysis of the femur bone is characterized as a skeletal structure …

A method for sex estimation using the proximal femur

F Curate, J Coelho, D Gonçalves, C Coelho… - Forensic science …, 2016 - Elsevier
The assessment of sex is crucial to the establishment of a biological profile of an unidentified
skeletal individual. The best methods currently available for the sexual diagnosis of human …

Main morphological characteristics and sexual dimorphism of hominin adult femora from the Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

JM Carretero, L Rodríguez… - The Anatomical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The excellent fossil record from Sima de los Huesos (SH) includes three well‐known
complete adult femora and several partial specimens that have not yet been published in …

Towards a new osteometric method for sexing ancient cremated human remains. Analysis of Late Bronze Age and Iron Age samples from Italy with gendered grave …

C Cavazzuti, B Bresadola, C d'Innocenzo, S Interlando… - PloS one, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Sex estimation of human remains is one of the most important research steps for physical
anthropologists and archaeologists dealing with funerary contexts and trying to reconstruct …

Sex determination from the femur in Portuguese populations with classical and machine-learning classifiers

F Curate, C Umbelino, A Perinha, C Nogueira… - Journal of Forensic and …, 2017 - Elsevier
The assessment of sex is of paramount importance in the establishment of the biological
profile of a skeletal individual. Femoral relevance for sex estimation is indisputable …

Estimation of sex from sternal measurements in a Western Australian population

D Franklin, A Flavel, A Kuliukas, A Cardini… - Forensic science …, 2012 - Elsevier
In Australia, particularly Western Australia, there is a relative paucity of contemporary
population-specific morphometric standards for the estimation of sex from unknown skeletal …

Cranio-facial bones evaluation based on clinical CT data for sex determination in Northwest Indian population

SK Battan, M Sharma, G Gakhar, M Garg, P Singh… - Legal Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
The skull and pelvis have been the first choice of bones for determination of unknown
human remains. The goal of the present study was to derive discriminant function equations …

A geometric-morphometric study of the Cretan humerus for sex identification

EF Kranioti, M Bastir, A Sánchez-Meseguer… - Forensic science …, 2009 - Elsevier
Various scholars have pioneered sex assessment from different parts of the skeleton based
on metrical or qualitative morphological characteristics. Lately though, a new technique …

Validation of anthropological measures of the human femur for sex estimation in Brazilians

MC Cuzzullin, F Curate, AR Freire… - Australian Journal of …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The femur has been commonly employed for sex determination of human skeletal remains,
and it is a suitable alternative to the more sexually dimorphic pelvis when this skeletal region …