Abstract

This dataset contains data from the analysis of 254 femora from the Documented Human Osteological Collections of Bologna and Sassari of the University of Bologna. Specifically, the sample is composed of 64 (31 females; 33 males) from the Certosa Cemetery of Bologna (Emilia Romagna, Northern Italy), and 68 (32 females; 36 males) from the Sassari cemetery (Sardinia). All individuals composing the sample are adults. Allometric relationships were assessed using a geometric mean of maximum femoral length and femoral head diameter as proxies of body size, and nineteen metric variables of the coxal bone previously recorded by Sorrentino et al. (2025) as morphological traits. The code developed to run the analysis is provided together with the data.