Assertion: mastoid process | /r/HasProperty | obtained by craniometric techniques
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text: 1 - the importance of the skull for sex determination; 2 - the importance of the temporal bone for anthropological studies due to its robustness and its location, usually making it possible to examine it in fragmented or burned skulls; 3 - the interest demonstrated by authors, since the last century, in the study of the mastoid process for the sex determination, both through its morphological traits (descriptive manner) and its measurement (morphometry); 4 - the search for related mathematical values to the mastoid process obtained by craniometric techniques that better demonstrate dimorphism between the sexes; 5 - the superior results demonstrated in studies that make use of multiple measurements rather than an isolated measurement of the mastoid process to determine the sex of skeleton; 6 - the significant results demonstrated in studies that make use of the dimorphism between the sexes of the correlation between the surface of the mastoid process and the robustness of the mastoid process; 7 - the scarcity of Brazilian national studies utilizing material of our ethnic and biological make up.