Schutkowski H
Institut für Anthropologie, Universität Göttingen, Germany.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1993 Feb;90(2):199-205. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.1330900206.
Ancient cemeteries are often characterized by a considerable number of infants and young children. Sex differences in childhood mortality, however, could rarely be studied up to now, mainly because there were only few proven traits for sexual determination of immature skeletons. Based on a historic sample of sixty-one children of known sex and age from Spitalfields, London (37 boys, 24 girls), sexually distinctive traits in the mandible and ilium are presented for morphognostic diagnosis. Besides other features, boys typically show a more prominent chin, an anteriorly wider dental arcade, and a narrower and deeper sciatic notch than girls. Most of the traits presented in this study allow individuals between birth and five years of age to be successfully allocated to either sex in 70-90% of the cases.
古代墓地的特点往往是有大量婴幼儿。然而，迄今为止，儿童期死亡率的性别差异很少得到研究，主要是因为用于未成熟骨骼性别判定的可靠特征很少。基于伦敦斯皮塔菲尔德已知性别和年龄的61名儿童的历史样本（37名男孩，24名女孩），本文展示了下颌骨和髂骨的性别差异特征，用于形态诊断。除其他特征外，男孩通常比女孩有更突出的下巴、更宽的牙弓前部，以及更窄更深的坐骨切迹。本研究中呈现的大多数特征能在70%-90%的情况下成功将出生至5岁的个体分配到相应性别。
