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Sex estimation of the adult Neandertal Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France): Implications for sexing human fossil remains

Diagnose sexuelle de l'adulte néandertalien Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France) : implication sur la diagnose sexuelle d'autres fossiles humains

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Sex is a biological trait fundamental to the study of hominin fossils. Among the many questions that can be addressed are those related to taxonomy, biological variability, sexual dimorphism, paleoobstetrics, funerary selection, and paleodemography. While new methodologies such as paleogenomics or paleoproteomics can be used to determine sex, they have not been systematically applied to Pleistocene human remains due to their destructive nature. Therefore, we estimated sex from the coxal bone of the newly discovered pelvic remains of the Regourdou 1 Neandertal (Southwest France, MIS 5) based on morphological and metric data employing two methods that have been recently revised and shown to be reliable in multiple studies. Both methods calculate posterior probabilities of the estimate. The right coxal bone of Regourdou 1 was partially reconstructed providing additional traits for sex estimation. These methods were cross validated on 14 sufficiently preserved coxal bones of specimens from the Neandertal lineage. Our results show that the Regourdou 1 individual, whose postcranial skeleton is not robust, is a male, and that previous sex attributions of comparative Neandertal specimens are largely in agreement with those obtained here. Our results encourage additional morphological research of fossil hominins in order to develop a set of methods that are applicable, reliable, and reproducible.
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hal-04655318 , version 1 (22-07-2024)

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Rebeka Rmoutilová, Jaroslav Brůžek, Asier Gómez-Olivencia, Stéphane Madelaine, Christine Couture-Veschambre, et al.. Sex estimation of the adult Neandertal Regourdou 1 (Montignac, France): Implications for sexing human fossil remains. Journal of Human Evolution, 2024, 189, pp.103470. ⟨10.1016/j.jhevol.2023.103470⟩. ⟨hal-04655318⟩

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