DIMORFISMO SEXUAL EN UNA POBLACIÓN ARQUEOLÓGICA MUSULMANA DEL SUR DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA

Abstract

Sexual dimorphism is a key issue in Biology, including Human Biology, because is considered as a response to several factors. An initial step to the sexual dimorphim establishment is sex assignation, a hard work (sometimes impossible) in paleontological and archaeological contexts. In order to avoid this problem, some techniques have been performed to estimate sexual dimorphims from unknonw sex populations. The aim of this study is to evaluate the sexual dimorphism of an archeological population by the means of different techniques (coeficient of variation, method of moments and ratio between male and female means) and to draw some inferences about the sociobiological context of the individuals buried in La Torrecilla cemetery (Arenas del Rey, Granada, Spain).