Sexuální dimorfismus kosti spánkové: Pars petrosa

Sex assessment is one of the basic steps in analysis of human skeletal remains. The most reliable methods for determination of the sex are based on the hip bone and the skull. When these bones are absent or fragmentary, other parts of human skeleton or separated bones of the skull are used. Significant sexual dimorphism was proved also in the petrous part of the temporal bone. The aim of this thesis was to metrically assess sexual dimorphism in the temporal bones, with emphasis on the petrous part, in skeletal sample from early Medieval burial site Dětkovice – „Za Zahradama“ (district Prostějov). A total of 44 temporal bones from 20 females and 24 males were used for the analysis of the sexual dimorphism in 35 linear measurements. An index of sexual dimorphism ISD (%) and Cohen´s d were used to describe the level of intersexual differences and the effect size, respectively. High level of ISD (> 5 %) showed thirteen of the measurements and these measurements seem to be the most appropriate for further research and sexual diagnosis of the skeletal remains using the temporal bone. The obtained results did not show significant between-sides differences in the temporal bone.