Patterns of Dental Sexual Dimorphism in Krapina
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Sexual dimorphism is an important component of morphological variation and has been associated with a range of socioecological and cultural variables. Comparing patterns of dental sexual dimorphism in two Central European samples, Krapina and Pr fedmostí, may shed light on sexual differences in biocultural adaptation. However, studying sexual dimorphism in ancient populations needs to address methodological problems originating from the properties of fossil data. In this paper, a new method is used to estimate the level of sexual dimorphism and to compare between samples. Results show that although the overall dental sexual dimorphism does not differ in the two fossil samples, there is a discernible difference in the patterns of dental sexual dimorphism: namely, the Krapina sample shows higher dimorphism in anterior dentition and the Pr fedmostí sample shows higher dimorphism in posterior dentition. Findings of this study may reflect sexual differentiation in using anterior dentition as tools in the Krapina Nean-
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