A re‐evaluation of estimation of stature based on measurements of stature taken during life and of long bones after death

Prediction of height from foot length: Use of measurement in field surveys.

“…= (6 * 23 x 10) + 4 * 66 = 66 * 96 cm. The standard deviations of error (Sr) of the estimation of height from foot length are of the same order as those found by Trotter and Gleser (1958) for American adult men, and those found by Zorab et al (1963) for 13-year-old children, for the estimation of height from the length of the long bones.…”

“…Investigators have studied the relation between height and the length of various long bones (Dupertius and Hadden, 1951; Trotter andGleser, 1952, 1958;Zorab, Prime, and Harrison, 1963), and have found good correlation between these measurements. The accurate measurement of height under field survey conditions is extremely difficult, but can provide valuable information.…”

Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)

“…The length of the jinniushan ulna fits much better among the male values than among females of many European or Euroamerican recent human samples (see for example Trotter and Gleser, 1958;Olivier, 1969;Krogman and Iscan, 1986) and yields a height of 170.2 cm using Trotter's (1970) formula for Euroamerican men, a value more in line with the SH and Neandertal males. Although there may be some questions regarding the sexual diagnosis of these three ulnae (Sidron, SH Ulna XII andjinniushan) as well as potentially different limb proportions of the individuals to whom they belong, these results underline the importance of correct sexual diagnosis of fossil remains when making palaeobiological interpretations.…”

“…The height estimates for the species Homo antecessor are based on the Trotter and Gleser (1958) formulae and relied on either incomplete long bones (radius) or bones not especially well related with stature (clavicle and metatarsal 11) (Carretero et al, 1999). Given these caveats, the mean of the three estimates is 172.6 cm (sOM , Table 51.16).…”

“…Another important complete fossil long bone, in this case from the Middle Pleistocene of Africa, is the tibia from Kabwe, Zambia (Pycraft et al, 1928), which seems to be the only postcranial bone from the site that can be clearly associated with the skull (Pearson, 2001 ;Trinkaus, 2009 Trotter and Gleser (1958) for AfroAmerican and EuroAmerican male individuals (178.9 cm and 184.4 cm, respectively), a height that is comparable only with Amud 1 among the Neandertals (SOM , Table 51.13).…”