Estudio de dimorfismo sexual en la población islámica medieval de la maqbara de Pamplona.

Resumen

The estimation of sex in archaeological populations from incomplete or fragmented human remains is very frequent due to the state of conservation or preservation of the samples. On occasions, when studying the populations of the past, the researcher may face having to choose between a study of sex estimation based on an archaeological population, closer in time and space, but, on the other hand, worse preserved; or, a contemporary reference study of known sex, better conserved and preserved but more remote in time and space. In the absence of reference studies in medieval Islamic populations, the first study of sexual dimorphism from the Maqbara of Pamplona, Spain, dated in the 8th century, is proposed. The research was carried out with a sample of 57 medieval Islamic adults, the results of which were contrasted with a contemporary Spanish sample of 192 individuals of known sex and age. For this, logistic regression was applied to 9 metric variables of humerus, femur and tibia in both populations. The percentage of correct allocation in Islamic people ranged between 77.5% and 97.6% of the cases and 82.1% and 93.6% in contemporaries. In the control sample of 25 Islamic individuals, the frequencies of correct allocation were higher using the medieval Islamic population, obtaining between 72.7% and 94.7% of correctly sexed individuals, compared to the contemporary Spanish, which were obtained results between 50% and 85%. In conclusion, we can say that this study of sexual dimorphism is a good reference for archaeologists and anthropologists who study the culture and biology of medieval Islamic populations.