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Phenice's visual sexing technique for the os pubis: A critique
Author(s) -
Kelley Marc A.
Publication year - 1978
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330480118
Subject(s) - sexing , anatomy , biology , zoology
Innominate bones from 362 California Indians were sexed with Phenice's three non‐metrical features of the os pubis. The frequencies of marked, intermediate, and absent cases of these three morphological features were tabulated in males and females to see if unambiguous and reliable distinctions were consistently available. The results suggest that Phenice's technique offered extremely reliable sex evaluations in this material.