Estimation of Sex Ratio in a Series of Excavated Skeletal Materials

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Introduction. Some thirty human skeletal remains, together with artifacts of the Okhotsk type (approx. A. D. 1000), were discovered at Omisaki in the northernmost part of the Okhotsk coast in Hokkaido. The remains were excavated by workmen; but were deposited in boxes and reburied at another site, according to ordinary cus tom, Shortly thereafter, the boxes in which the bones had been placed in a random order were re-excavated by the author. Such being the circumstances, it was exceedingly difficult to identify the individual skeletal sets. Thus our attention was shifted to the statistical study of each bone series rather than the study of individual skeletal sets. The most difficult point in the anthropological investigation of this material was the determination of the sex of each bone. If the individual set of skeleton had been preserved, the sex could have read ilybeen estimated by observing the skull and the pelvis or some coexisting artifacts. However, under such unfavorable conditions, we were forced, for instance, to identify the sex of the tibia quite separately from that of the femur.
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