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STATURE ESTIMATION FROM THE RADIOGRAPHS OF METATARSALS IN TURKISH POPULATION

Sağır Seçil (1), Sağır Mehmet (2)

1) Ahi Evran University, Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Anthropology, Bağbaşı Campus, Kırşehir, Turkey; 2) Ankara University, Faculty of Languages, History and Geography, Department of Anthropology, Ankara, Turkey

Sağır Mehmet, e-mail: mhmtsgr@gmail.com.

Abstract

To determine stature is as important as the determination of sex and age when analyzing and identifying the remains of skeleton. Stature, in an approximate and widespread manner, is being determined on the femur and tibia lengths, which are the long bones that directly affect the stature. However, when long bones are not available or they are found in a very bad state of preservation that does not permit any estimation of stature, then other bones of the body are also being used for this purpose. The aim of this study is to determine stature with the help of metatarsals in Turkish population. In this study, by using the x-ray films for the metatarsals bones of 100 women and 100 men, the Bayesian regression equations have been produced for 5 metatarsal bones. The coefficients of correlation existing between the metatarsal bones and stature, together with the standard errors of these equations, have been examined at length throughout this study. The results of the studies conducted by other researchers (Byers, Akoshima and Curran, 1989) have been compared with the results of our study.

Keywords

metatarsal, stature, regression, forensic anthropology

Цит.: Sağır Seçil, Sağır Mehmet STATURE ESTIMATION FROM THE RADIOGRAPHS OF METATARSALS IN TURKISH POPULATION // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2014; 3/2014; с. 43-43

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