Testing anatomical methods for stature estimation on individuals from the W. M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection.
This study compared eight versions of the anatomical method for stature estimation on a white male sample (n = 34) from the W. M. Bass Donated Skeletal Collection. The aim was to evaluate errors in the estimates and to discuss how useful the methods are in forensic context. The average error estimating living stature was less than 1 cm for six of the methods. The correlations between the estimates were high (r = 0.982-0.999). In practice, differences between the versions as well as those between long bone-based equations and anatomical methods were small. Anatomical method is nevertheless more accurate than long bone regressions when individuals with atypical body proportions are examined.
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Laboratory of Archaeology, University of Oulu, PO Box 1000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland. heli.maijanen@oulu.fi
D000328:Adult; D001827:Body Height; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000033:anatomy & histology*; D002102:Cadaver; D018732:Forensic Anthropology / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015233:Models, Statistical; D012044:Regression Analysis; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D044465:White People