Men and Women from Las Pirguas, Salta: A Study of Expressions of Sexual Dimorphism
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The objective of this paper is to provide information on the behavior of sex-related morphological variables in the adult individuals that make up the Las Pirguas osteological collection, housed at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de La Plata.
Although this collection was originally recovered systematically and with an important degree of integrity and contextual association, due to historical and storage circumstances, the skeletons that compose it are no longer anatomically integrated. Taking into account this limited information, we decided to structure the study on the basis of the separate analysis of the skull and the pelvis, diagnostic anatomical structures conventionally considered the most representative of dimorphism, in order to visualize and define the degree of dimorphic expression observed at the intra- and inter-anatomical complex levels.
Our results show a low general expression of dimorphism in the individuals of Las Pirguas. Comparatively, the pelvises are more dimorphic than the skulls. These results are analyzed, discussed, and interpreted in relation to the behavior and degree of reliability observed in other osteological assemblages from Northwestern Argentina, found articulated and with contextual association, which proved to be clearly dimorphic.
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