Estimation of biological sex from an unknown human skeleton is an important step in analyses of forensic and archaeological skeletal cases. Traditionally, the hip bone (pelvic or innominate bone) is preferentially used for this purpose due to its universal sexual dimorphism in shape resulting from its important reproductive functions of the bone in females. Despite much advancement in the field of sex estimation by means of modern morphometric approaches, no practical software had been available for sex estimation utilizing the shape analysis of the hip bone. We developed HIP 1.1 software (High-sensitive Innominate Processing) which is the second functional version of the software designed for morphometric estimation of sex of an unknown skeletal find based on the pelvic bone. The program works with standardized 2D images of bones from a desktop scanner and produces an assignment of sex to each case/skeletal remains using methods of traditional and geometric morphometry.

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Screenshot of the digitizing window of the HIP software (iliac view). Screenshot of a visualization of an example of a selected distance between points 8 and 16 in the pubic view. The green line points to the position of the analyzed case. Screenshot of a result from the GM analysis. The analyzed case is represented by a green line. In the tps grids, mean female shape is in red and mean male in blue. The largest shape differences are shown by thickening (darkening) or by diluting (lightening) of the grid. Screenshot of a result from the LDA with arbitrarily selected variables. The analyzed case was compared with Prague reference sample of bones of the same body side, the distances computed on the pubic view only were used and avoiding predefined inappropriate distances was selected. The results of the estimation indicate clearly the male sex. Landmarks defined on the images of the pelvic bone in the pubic view (left) and the iliac view (right).

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