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Bronze-age Versus Recent Crania: Occipital Region Discrimination-Discriminant Function Analysis

The study was made on 21 Bronze-age crania (14 male and 7 female) and 21 recent crania (15 male and 6 female). After sexing the two samples by visual inspection of crania, the sex of each sample was computed by two discriminant analysis. The Bronze age crania were correctly sexed in 76. 19 % cases ; for the recent population the percentage was 100 %. Regarding age, 86.21 % of male skulls were correctly assigned, while the percentage for women was 92.31 %. The somewhat lower percentage of correctly assigned Bronze-age crania for sex can be explained by substituting the means for missing values. Nevertheless, these results do not contradict sexing based on morphology. A certain overlap occurs in the discriminant functions for age. However, a clear distinction between the prehistoric and recent population is indicated by the high percentage of correctly assigned cases.

Bronze-age; recent age; crania; occipital region; discriminant analysis

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