ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the assessment of sex and the estimation of age. In adults, provided that the right parts of the skeleton are present (the skull and, especially, the pelvis) sex assessment is fairly straightforward. It is much more difficult in the growing skeleton. As regards age at death, it is children for whom age estimation is the more reliable; it is currently very difficult to do this reliably in adults. I outline the various ageing and sexing methods and their limitations, and for adult age estimation I explain the nature of the problems we currently have in this area.
