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In bioarchaeological contexts, this assessment is also important, as it helps in the reconstruction of past societies. Sex determination can be achieved by using several morphological or metric traits of the skull and postcranial skeleton, which have been found to have varying degrees of accuracy. In 1969 Phenice proposed a methodology focusing on three traits located on the pubis. These traits were described as either having a female or male morphology with ambiguity being rare. Phenice\u2019s method became regularly utilized as it was considered to be reliable. In 2012, Klales and colleagues published a revision of Phenice\u2019s method, as they found that it did not capture the variation in the expression of the three traits. Klales and co-authors created a visual ordinal scale of 1\u20135 for each of the three traits Phenice originally identified, thus adding three extra possible forms of expression. 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