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"Identified" based on recorded dimensions of the bones from old medical notes? When the original examiner, with actual bones in front of him, determined them t
by dzdt 9y ago
"Identified" based on recorded dimensions of the bones from old medical notes? When the original examiner, with actual bones in front of him, determined them to be from a male? I will take a large grain of salt here!
- taborj 9y agoConversely, anthropology has advanced a wee bit since 1941 when that original examiner looked at them.
- bunderbunder 9y agoI guess* there's been a lot of revision of previous sex determinations for skeletal remains lately. Something about older techniques paying too much attention to the absolute sizes bones, which led to a lot of misclassification of taller-than-average men and shorter-than-average women. *Based on a conversation with a museum employee, so I've got no citation here.