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Abstract
Height, age and sex determination from different bones of the body are helpful for establishing the identity of an individual. In developed countries, established osteometric data exist for height and sex determination. However, very little information is available on the use of osteometric indices for forensic and biometric purposes in Ghana. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine height and sex of participants using percutaneous humeral and tibial lengths. One hundred undergraduate students were recruited from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology with 55% males and 45% females aged between 18 and 43 years for the study. Male participants had longer humeri and tibiae than females (p < 0.05). In both male and female participants, right humeri were slightly longer than the left, and left tibiae were slightly longer than the right, but these differences were not statistically significant. Mean humeral and tibial lengths of the study population differed significantly from those reported for Indians, Nigerians, Turks and Iranians. Tibial length was a better estimator of osteometric index for height and left humeral length was the only sexually dimorphic parameter, making these indices useful tools for preliminary height and sex determination.