The Difficulty of Sexing Skeletons from Unknown Populations

Table 4

A summary of methods in disagreement with a majority of sex estimates found in this study.

Skeletal element	Method
	Morphological (descriptive)	Metric (quantitative)
Cranial	4	7
Pelvic	7	N/A
Mandibular	6	N/A
Humeral	4	10
Femoral	N/A	7
Talar/calcaneal	N/A	4
Scapular	N/A	10
Total	21	38
Percentage out of all individual assessments	21/140; (15 ± 3.0%)	38/160; (24 ± 3.4%)