A Nyíregyházi Jósa András Múzeum évkönyve 33-35. - 1990-1992 (Nyíregyháza, 1993)

László Szathmáry: Importance of Pre-auricular Region Sex Determination (in the analysis of a medieval sample from NE Hungary) (lektorálta: Marcsik Antónia)v67

Summing up the factors and results discussed above (on the basis of the series examined) the pre-auricular region is one of those characters on the basis of which the determination of sex is the surest. The greater sciatic notch, the pubic angle, the cotylo-sciatic index, the true pelvis and the head of femur belong to this group. In the second place the mastoid process, the malar surface, the greater pelvis and the ischium-pubis index, possibly even the glabella, the supraorbital margin and orbit, the zygomatic arch, the sacrum and the linea aspera may be mentioned. On the basis of the occipital squama, the external occipital protuberance, the mental protuberance, the mandibular angle and the obturator foramen, the determination of sex may be quite unsure. Considering the examined skeleton-remains the following conclusions may be drawn: knowing only the frontal and parietal eminences, the body of mandible (at M2) and the head of mandible, we can form our opinion of the probable sex only with the greatest possible care. All these results accentuate NOVOTNYs conclusions (1972.), as relying upon the pre-auricular region the sex of human skeletons can be determined correctly in about 80 per cents of the cases. The results presented above primarily differ from the distribution supposed to be standard (FEREMBACH-SCHWIDETZKY-STLOUKHAL 1979.) in the weighting of the frontal and the parietal eminences as well as that of the occipital squama. 76