Abstract: The horizontal circumference of skull, maximum length of clavicle and os coxa and the morphological breadth of scapula of 70 male adult human skeletons from South China were measured and the coefficients of correlation between the average length of the right, left and both sides of these items and the stature were calculated. The coefficients range from 0.298 to 0.616. The significance tests denote that all of these coefficients are significant (p V 0.01). Hence, 10 regression formulae were computed. All of these equations were checked on 70 Chinese skeletons. It shows that the estimating stature from the equation of the os coxa appears more reliable than from the scapula, the skull and the clavicle.

Key words: Horizontal circumference of skull; Clavicle; Scapula; Os coxa; Stature; Regression equation