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Osteological data to the anthropological investigation of human hand

Sineva I.M., Baholdina V.Yu.

Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of biology, Department of anthropology, Leninskie Gory, 1, p.12, Moscow, 119991, Russia

Sineva Irina e-mail: i-sineva@yandex.ru; Bakholdina Varvara Yu., e-mail: vbaholdina@mail.ru

Abstract

The review of literary data of Russian and foreign authors on variations of the form and structure of a human hand is presented in the article. The problems of intersexual, ethnic, age variation of digit ratio, its heritability and correlations with various morphological, functional and psychological characteristics are taken up. The review of techniques of studying of the normal variation of the form of a hand is provided. In the practical part of the work the comparative analysis of value of a digit ratio at man’s and female skeletons is carried out. Correlations between digit ratio and length of a body and digit ratio and the age of individuals are investigated. Reliable correlations of a digit ratio with age and length of a body are not found. Distinctions in values of a digit ratio of male and female skeletons don’t reach the level of statistical reliability, but the tendency of increase of its values for women however is observed. Digit ratio can be used as an additional indicator of sexual differentiation of bone remains.

Keywords

Lomonosov MSU, anthropology, type of a hand, digit ratio, sex diagnostics, correlation of osteometric characters

Цит.: Sineva I.M., Baholdina V.Yu. Osteological data to the anthropological investigation of human hand // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2012; 2/2012; с. 4-16