Center for Functional Anatomy and Evolution, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2012 Aug;148(4):601-17. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.22087. Epub 2012 May 28.
Techniques that are currently available for estimating stature and body mass from European skeletal remains are all subject to various limitations. Here, we develop new prediction equations based on large skeletal samples representing much of the continent and temporal periods ranging from the Mesolithic to the 20th century. Anatomical reconstruction of stature is carried out for 501 individuals, and body mass is calculated from estimated stature and biiliac breadth in 1,145 individuals. These data are used to derive stature estimation formulae based on long bone lengths and body mass estimation formulae based on femoral head breadth. Prediction accuracy is superior to that of previously available methods. No systematic geographic or temporal variation in prediction errors is apparent, except in tibial estimation of stature, where northern and southern European formulae are necessary because of the presence of relatively longer tibiae in southern samples. Thus, these equations should bebroadly applicable to European Holocene skeletal samples.
目前可用于从欧洲骨骼遗骸估算身高和体重的技术都存在各种局限性。在这里，我们基于代表欧洲大部分地区的大型骨骼样本和从中石器时代到 20 世纪的时间范围，开发了新的预测方程。对 501 个人进行了身高的解剖重建，对 1145 个人进行了从估计的身高和髂骨宽度计算得出的体重。这些数据用于根据长骨长度得出身高估算公式，根据股骨头宽度得出体重估算公式。预测准确性优于以前可用的方法。除了在身高的胫骨估计中，由于南部样本中胫骨相对较长，因此需要使用北欧和南欧公式外，没有明显的系统地理或时间预测误差变化。因此，这些公式应该广泛适用于欧洲全新世骨骼样本。
