[Value of morphometry in identification questions].

Abstract

Pilot studies have been carried out to check the importance of selected measures and measure combinations for the discrimination of the sex with the help of meceraled skeleton material the age and the sex of which are known, on the one hand, and of prehistoric skeleton material (the age and the sex of which had been determined previously), on the other hand. At the same time, discriminant functions were established for the selected individual measures and measure combinations. The first results are now available for skull caps, humeri, femora and pubic bones.