Shape variability of the adult human acetabulum and acetabular fossa related to sex and age by geometric morphometrics. implications for adult age estimation

The acetabulum, a part of its locomotor implication, is important because of its utility in sex estimation (e.g., [1,2,3,4,5,6], and because recently it has been identified as a good adult age marker [7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16]. The original acetabular method [8] for estimating adult age-at-death studied exclusively acetabular age changes in males [9]. Some authors reported no sex differences in their obtained age estimations when Rissech ’s method was applied in both males and females [10,17,13].
Source: Forensic Science International - Category: Forensic Medicine Authors: Source Type: research