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https://doi.org/10.20874/2071-0437-2026-72-1-11       

УДК  572.08

  http://www.ipdn.ru/_private/a72/105-116.pdf

Khodyreva, Dar'ya S.,

D.N. Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation,

e-mail: khodyrevads@mail.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9344-0042

Goncharova, Nataliya N.,

PhD in Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation,

e-mail: goncharovann@my.msu.ru, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8504-1175

Berezina, Nataliya Ya.,

D.N. Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russian Federation,

e-mail: berezina.natalia@gmail.com, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5704-9153

Sexual dimorphism represents a significant component of morphological variability within biological populations. Investigating patterns of sexual differences in tooth size is essential for the development of sex identification methodologies based on odontometric data. This study aims to examine sexual dimorphism in dental metric traits across geographically and chronologically diverse samples and to conduct a comparative analysis of these patterns. The study encompasses five cranial series comprising a total of 524 individuals: Mamisondon (7^th– 9^th centuries AD, North Ossetia), Mayatsky (8^th–10^th centuries AD, Voronezh Region), Dmitrievsky (8^th–9^th centuries AD, Belgorod Region), Kozino (18^th century AD, Moscow Region), and Obdorsk (18^th–19^th centuries AD, Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). Dental measurements were conducted in accordance with the methodological guidelines established by A.A. Zubov [1968] and S. Hillson [2005]. To assess sexual dimorphism indices, different sets of odontometric traits can be categorized into multiple groups. The analysis revealed unequal contributions of different components of the odontometric system to Mahalanobis distances. Furthermore, each new study group exhibited varying levels of sexual differences for individual traits compared to other series. These results suggest that complex mechanisms underlie human dental sexual dimorphism, which substantially limits the applicability of dental metric traits for sex identification methodologies.

Keywords: paleoanthropology, dental metrics, sexual dimorphism, Mahalanobis distance, Mayatsky, Dmitrievsky, Kozino, Obdorsk, Mamisondon.

© Khodyreva D.S., Goncharova N.N., Berezina N.Ya., 2026      

Funding. The study of the Mamisondon, Dmitrievsky, and Mayatsky series was supported by a grant from the Russian Science Foundation, Project No. 25-18-00322. The study of the Obdorsk and Kozino series was conducted as part of the research topic “Formation of Certain Morphofunctional Features of Humans in Phylo- and Ontogenesis” at the Department of Anthropology, Lomonosov Moscow State University.

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