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Body mass estimation in skeletal samples using the hybrid approach: the effect of population-specific variations and sexual dimorphism

The result's identifiers

  • Result code in IS VaVaI

    <a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F18%3A10392355" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/18:10392355 - isvavai.cz</a>

  • Alternative codes found

    RIV/00216224:14210/16:00107135

  • Result on the web

    <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0400-6" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0400-6</a>

  • DOI - Digital Object Identifier

    <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12520-016-0400-6" target="_blank" >10.1007/s12520-016-0400-6</a>

Alternative languages

  • Result language

    angličtina

  • Original language name

    Body mass estimation in skeletal samples using the hybrid approach: the effect of population-specific variations and sexual dimorphism

  • Original language description

    Body mass is estimated from skeletal records with low accuracy, and it is expected that population-specific equations derived by a hybrid approach may help to reduce the error in body mass estimates. We used 204 individuals from five Central European Early Medieval sites to test the effect of population-specific femoral head breadth equations on the accuracy of body mass estimates. The baseline for living body mass was computed using the biiliac breadth and stature. We also analyzed the agreement of five general femoral head techniques that are used in body mass estimation (Elliott et al. (Archaeol Anthropol Sci 1-20, 2015b; Grine et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 97:151-185, 1995); McHenry (Am J Phys Anthropol 87:407-431, 1992); Ruff et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 148:601-617, 2012); Ruff et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 86:397, 1991)). Our results support previous findings showing that body mass is predicted with lower accuracy than stature, even when population-specific equations are derived. However, the population-specific approach increases the agreement with the body mass estimated from the biiliac breadth and stature, particularly when sex-specific equations are used. Thus, our results advocate for the employment of sex-specific equations when possible and show that the possibility of deriving equation for each sex separately is the main advantage of the population-specific approach. The best agreement among the body mass techniques in the Central European Early Medieval samples was observed using the femoral head equations reported by Ruff et al. (Am J Phys Anthropol 148:601-617, 2012) and McHenry (Am J Phys Anthropol 87:407-431, 1992), whereas other studied equations provided lower agreement. The particularly low performance obtained using the technique reported by Elliott et al. (2015b) questioned the use of their equations to estimate body masses.

  • Czech name

  • Czech description

Classification

  • Type

    J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

  • CEP classification

  • OECD FORD branch

    10600 - Biological sciences

Result continuities

  • Project

    <a href="/en/project/GA14-22823S" target="_blank" >GA14-22823S: The peoples at the end of Great Moravia: bioarchaeology and taphonomy of the new cemetery at the northeast suburb at Pohansko (Břeclav)</a><br>

  • Continuities

    P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Others

  • Publication year

    2018

  • Confidentiality

    S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Data specific for result type

  • Name of the periodical

    Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

  • ISSN

    1866-9557

  • e-ISSN

  • Volume of the periodical

    10

  • Issue of the periodical within the volume

    4

  • Country of publishing house

    DE - GERMANY

  • Number of pages

    15

  • Pages from-to

    833-847

  • UT code for WoS article

    000431795200008

  • EID of the result in the Scopus database

    2-s2.0-85029866552