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ALEXANDRIA
EGYPT
Ch-children,?-indeterminate,
Σ
-sum,n-samplesize
Table1.Genderoccurrenceinexaminedindividualsbrokendownbycemeteryphases
hasbeenpresentedinsomewhatmore
graphicalmannerinChart1.
Genderdistributionintheanalyzed
assemblage,consideringtheUpperNecro-
polisexclusively,constituted46.03%male
skeletonsand53.97%femaleones.
Inmanycases,theunsatisfactorycon-
ditionoftheskeletalmaterial,itsconsider-
ablefragmentationandthefactthatinmost
casesbonesofmorethanoneindividual
weremixed,excludeddetailedanthropo-
logicalexamination.Theessentialdata
necessarytoestimatebodyheightatdeath
werecollectedforfivemenand11women.
StaturewasdeterminedwithPearson's
regressionequations,5whichappearsuf-
ficientforthepurposesoftentativecom-
parisons.6Resultstatisticsarepresentedin
Table2.Alloftheindividualswhoseheight
couldbeestimatedhadbeenburiedin
gravesattributedbyarchaeologiststothe
UpperNecropolis.
Theagestructureoftheexaminedindi-
vidualswasanalyzedbyattributingtheir
ageatdeathtooneofsixgroupsdeter-
miningtheontogeneticrhythmofhuman
life.Theresultsoftheanalysiswereput
togetherinTable3andpresentedinChart2.
BurialsfromtheLowerandMiddleNecro-
poliseswereexcludedfromtheanalysisin
viewoftheirmarginalshareinthetotal
numberofexaminedskeletons.Frequencies
Table2.StatisticsofthestatureofexaminedindividualsfromtheUpperNecropolis
(2004/2005season)
n-samplesize,x-arithmeticalmean,s-standarddeviation
5
MeasurementstakeninaccordancewiththewidelyappliedmethodsofR.Martin,K.Saller,Lehrbuchder
Anthropologie(Stuttgart1957-1959)wereanalyzedwithmethodssuggestedbyK.Pearson,"Onthereconstructionof
statureofprehistoricraces.Mathematiccontributiontothetheoryofevolution",TransactionsoftheRoyalSociety192
(1899),169-244.Thiswasdoneinviewoftheabsenceofreliabledataonthemorphotypeattributionofparticular
individuals.Infurtheranalyses,itwouldbeconstructivetosetupsuchadivisionandtoapplyregressionequations
developedbyM.Trotter,G.C.Gleser,"EstimationofstaturefromlongbonesofAmericanWhitesandNegroes",
AmericanJournalofPhysicalAnthropology10(1952),463-514.
6
VariousmethodsofestimatingbodyheightatdeatharecomparedinJ.Strzałko,"Metodyrekonstrukcjiwzrostu
człowiekanapodstawiepomiarówszkieletu",Przegl¹dAntropologiczny37,fasc.2(Poznań1971),295-314.
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