A Description of the Geological Context, Discrete Traits, and Linear Morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene Hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China

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	A Description of the Geological Context, Discrete Traits, and Linear Morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene Hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China
	Wu, Xinzhi 1; Athreya, Sheela 2; athreya@tamu.edu
	2013
发表期刊	AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
ISSN	0002-9483
卷号	150 期号:1 页码:141-157
文章类型	Article
摘要	In 1978, a nearly complete hominin fossil cranium was recovered from loess deposits at the site of Dali in Shaanxi Province, northwestern China. It was subsequently briefly described in both English and Chinese publications. Here we present a comprehensive univariate and nonmetric description of the specimen and provide comparisons with key Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus and non-erectus hominins from Eurasia and Africa. In both respects we find affinities with Chinese H. erectus as well as African and European Middle Pleistocene hominins typically referred to as Homo heidelbergensis. Specifically, the Dali specimen possesses a low cranial height, relatively short and arched parietal bones, an angled occipital bone, and a nonprominent articular tubercle relative to the preglenoid surface all of which distinguish it from Afro/European Middle Pleistocene Homo and align it with Asian H. erectus. At the same time, it displays a more derived morphology of the supraorbital torus and supratoral sulcus and a thinner tympanic plate than H. erectus, a relatively long upper (lambda-inion) occipital plane with a clear separation of inion and opisthocranion, and an absolute and relative increase in brain size, all of which align it with African and European Middle Pleistocene Homo. Finally, traits such as the form of the frontal keel and the relatively short, broad midface align Dali specifically with other Chinese specimens from the Middle Pleistocene and Late Pleistocene, including H. erectus, and differentiate these from the Afro/European specimens of this time period. Am J Phys Anthropol 150:141-157, 2013. (C)2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
关键词	Homo Heidelbergensis Homo Erectus Asia
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
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关键词[WOS]	MODERN HUMAN ORIGINS ; HOMO-ERECTUS ; MODERN HUMANS ; HUMAN-EVOLUTION ; CRANIAL REMAINS ; FOSSIL HOMINIDS ; NORTHERN CHINA ; SITE (SIERRA ; BRAIN SIZE ; BODY-MASS
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Evolutionary Biology
WOS记录号	WOS:000313705200016
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4221
专题	古人类及旧石器研究室
通讯作者	athreya@tamu.edu
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Lab Human Evolut, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Texas A&M Univ, Dept Anthropol, College Stn, TX 77843 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, Xinzhi,Athreya, Sheela,athreya@tamu.edu. A Description of the Geological Context, Discrete Traits, and Linear Morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene Hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China[J]. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,2013,150(1):141-157.
APA	Wu, Xinzhi,Athreya, Sheela,&athreya@tamu.edu.(2013).A Description of the Geological Context, Discrete Traits, and Linear Morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene Hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China.AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY,150(1),141-157.
MLA	Wu, Xinzhi,et al."A Description of the Geological Context, Discrete Traits, and Linear Morphometrics of the Middle Pleistocene Hominin from Dali, Shaanxi Province, China".AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 150.1(2013):141-157.