Identification of an unknown body who died in mass disaster, wars, homicides, suicide or accidental deaths is a very important task in the fields of physical anthropology and forensic medicine. Sometimes, complete foot or part of it is brought in for postmortem examination. In such a situation, estimation of stature becomes equally important along with other parameters like age, sex, race, etc. The present work attempts to estimate stature from various anthropometric measurements of foot of Egyptians. The study was carried out on 150 living Egyptian individuals comprising 75 males and 75 females; their age was between 19 and 23 years. The results revealed that there was a significant positive correlation between stature and foot length and breadth in males, females and both sexes. Simple linear regression analysis was done for all data in all cases and introduced regression equation formulae for estimation of the stature of any individual from foot dimensions. These formulae are helpful in the estimation of stature of the deceased from foot length, breadth or both of them when foot is the only portion available for examination. |
