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

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>

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

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10600 - Biological sciences

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)

Publication year

2018

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences

ISSN

1866-9557

e-ISSN

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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