The pelvis of Late Pleistocene hominin from Liujiang, South China: Its body size, body shape and encephalization

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	The pelvis of Late Pleistocene hominin from Liujiang, South China: Its body size, body shape and encephalization
	Liu, Wu 1; Wu, Xiujie 1; Wang, Steven L.2,3; Li, Haijun 4
	2010-11-01
发表期刊	ANTHROPOLOGIE
卷号	114 期号:5 页码:543-563
文章类型	Article
摘要	The Late Pleistocene hominin fossil assemblage from Liujiang, South China include a fairly well-preserved cranium, a right os coxa, a complete sacrum, and other postcranial elements all belonging to a single individual. This rare discovery offers us a unique and singular opportunity in understanding this Late Pleistocene hominin's body proportion and relative cranial capacity (encephalization quotient [EQ]), and also pelvic morphology. Using the available right innominate and its mirror-imaged left side, we reconstruct Liujiang hominin's pelvis. Our analysis of the pelvis indicates that the Liujiang hominin has a very gracile and modern-like pelvic morphology. Indeed, all of the pelvic dimensions are smaller than those of other Pleistocene hominins. Moreover, the pelvic characteristics typical of Middle and Late Pleistocene hominins including Neanderthals cannot be identified in the Liujiang pelvis. In contrast, both Liujiang's metric and non-metric features indicate affinities to more recent human populations including our modern Chinese collections from Guangxi of south China. Further support of this assessment comes from the EQ value of 5.754 for Liujiang which is closer to Minatogawa 2 and modern Chinese populations than to Middle and Late Pleistocene fossil hominins. Our analysis of body shape shows that Liujiang has body proportion (i.e. body height relative to body breadth) typical of warm-adapted populations. Based on these findings, we reason that the modern physical characteristics of Liujiang may allude to a more recent geological age. Alternatively, its morphological "modernity" could also point to a much higher degree of skeletal variation within Late Pleistocene hominins in East Asia. (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
关键词	Liujiang Pelvis Body Shape Encephalization Late Pleistocene
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE ; BRAIN SIZE ; PROPORTIONS ; HOMO ; MASS ; AGE
收录类别	SSCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Anthropology
WOS类目	Anthropology
WOS记录号	WOS:000286017800004
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文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7632
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.CUNY, Grad Ctr, New York, NY 10016 USA 3.CUNY, NYCEP, New York, NY 10016 USA 4.Minzu Univ China, Beijing 100081, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Liu, Wu,Wu, Xiujie,Wang, Steven L.,et al. The pelvis of Late Pleistocene hominin from Liujiang, South China: Its body size, body shape and encephalization[J]. ANTHROPOLOGIE,2010,114(5):543-563.
APA	Liu, Wu,Wu, Xiujie,Wang, Steven L.,&Li, Haijun.(2010).The pelvis of Late Pleistocene hominin from Liujiang, South China: Its body size, body shape and encephalization.ANTHROPOLOGIE,114(5),543-563.
MLA	Liu, Wu,et al."The pelvis of Late Pleistocene hominin from Liujiang, South China: Its body size, body shape and encephalization".ANTHROPOLOGIE 114.5(2010):543-563.