This study indicates that femur measurements are a useful tool in the estimation of sex in human skeletal remains found from the archaeological and forensic context in Sri Lanka. A linear discriminant analysis model over the regression model is suggested to estimate the sex using osteometric measurements of the fragmentary and comple. te femur. For a fairly completed femur, linear discriminant function analysis of four femoral measurements (Anteroposterior mid shaft diameter, epicondylar breadth, bi-trochanter length, and maximum shaft diameter) provides higher accuracy of sex determination. However, for fragmented proximal part of the femur indicated the measurements of Transverse head diameter and bi-trochanter length, whereas the fragmented distal part of the femur suggested the measurements of epicondylar breadth and the maximum length of the lateral condyle.

R.M.S.L. Ranaweera, E. Cabral, D. M. P. V. Dissanayake and W. S. V. Lakshan

International Journal of Morphology

Abstract :- http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0717-95022022000401009