ABSTRACT
Table 8.1, modified from information provided in Krogman (1962), presents the classic attributes of the pelvis that distinguish males from females. As with any anthroposcopically identifiable characteristic, these traits show a large amount of variation. For example, although the pelvis is larger and more rugged in males than females, there exist an almost infinite number of gradations between the extremes in size of this structure. Within this continuum, although males are more often found at the high end and females at the low end, there is considerable overlap between the pelvises of lightly built males and strongly built females. Thus, although the following discussion will focus on the stereotypic differences between the sexes, it must be remembered that this determination often is not as easy as described and, as with all other aspects of skeletal analysis, it requires much practice to perfect.
