SEX DISCRIMINATION IN A MEDIEVAL POPULATION OF THE SOUTHERN IBERIAN PENINSULA
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Sex determination of the archaeological individuals is a relevant topic because from this it is possible to establish several social and biological inferences. It is well known that some bones are bettter than other ones in order to sex discrimination. The main reason is because not all of the bones reflect in the same way the sexual dimorphism. In this paper, it is shown an example of sexual determination from femur, applied to Middle Age archaeological collection (La Torrecilla, Arenas del Rey, Granada, Spain) with a previous reliable sex assignation. The results show that the area of the femoral diaphysis and the whole size of the femur are good discriminant variables. On the contrary, the femoral robutness show a high level of overlapping and it cannot be considered as a good discriminant.