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| Neurocranial abnormalities of the Gongwangling Homo erectus from Lantian, China | |
Shang, Hong1,2; Trinkaus, Erik1; Liu, Wu2 ; Wu, Xinzhi2; Zhu, Qizhi3; trinkaus@artsci.wustl.edu
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| 2008-09-01 | |
| 发表期刊 | JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE
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| ISSN | 0305-4403 |
| 卷号 | 35期号:9页码:2589-2593 |
| 文章类型 | Article |
| 摘要 | A B S T R A C T The Homo erectus cranium found at Gongwangling, near Lantian, China, and dated to = 1.2 ma BP has been analyzed with respect to its evolutionary position. However, the remains, and especially the internal and external surfaces of the neurocranium, present a series of marked abnormalities. These irregularities consist principally of a pronounced cresting and scalloping of the external surface of the frontal bone and anterior parietal bone and a similar alteration of the internal surface of a mid transverse section of parietal bone that connects with the fossilization break across the anterior parietal bone. There is no obvious exposure of cliplo on the surfaces. Woo (Vertebrato PaLAsiatica 10:1-16, 1966) briefly ascribed these abnormalities to postmortem erosion, and Caspari (Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 102:565-568, 1997) has attributed the irregularities of the right supraorbital torus to antemortern trauma. It has been suggested that the pervasive neurocranial alterations might be pathological. Computerized tomography (CT) analysis of the frontal and parietal bones revealed complete radiopacity of the anterior half of the fossil; it is possible to distinguish large frontal sinuses but other details, including in the area of the purported traumatic lesion, are invisible. However, in the posterior frontal bone and preserved portions of the parietal bone the cliploi and tables are discernible. Externally on the frontoparietal section and internally on the transverse parietal piece, there are clear erosional lacunae in the associated table, combined with a thin layer of matrix which obscures the eroded diplo externally. The superficial irregularities are therefore due to postmortem taphonomic alterations of the bone and not pathological processes. In addition, it is apparent that the two pieces were embedded in the matrix at different angles, resulting in their differential erosion. (c) 2008 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
| 关键词 | Computerized Tomography Paleopathology Taphonomy Early Pleistocene |
| WOS标题词 | Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine ; Physical Sciences |
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| 关键词[WOS] | SKULL ; SHENSI ; BURN ; BONE |
| 收录类别 | SCI ; SSCI ; AHCI |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geology |
| WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Archaeology ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:000258007400018 |
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/4813 |
| 专题 | 中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后） 古人类及旧石器研究室 |
| 通讯作者 | trinkaus@artsci.wustl.edu |
| 作者单位 | 1.Washington Univ, Dept Anthropol, St Louis, MO 63130 USA 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 3.Peking Univ, Peoples Hosp, Dept Radiol, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Shang, Hong,Trinkaus, Erik,Liu, Wu,et al. Neurocranial abnormalities of the Gongwangling Homo erectus from Lantian, China[J]. JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE,2008,35(9):2589-2593. |
| APA | Shang, Hong,Trinkaus, Erik,Liu, Wu,Wu, Xinzhi,Zhu, Qizhi,&trinkaus@artsci.wustl.edu.(2008).Neurocranial abnormalities of the Gongwangling Homo erectus from Lantian, China.JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE,35(9),2589-2593. |
| MLA | Shang, Hong,et al."Neurocranial abnormalities of the Gongwangling Homo erectus from Lantian, China".JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 35.9(2008):2589-2593. |
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