Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): an assessment of body size and shape

Holliday, Trenton W.; Churchill, Steven E.

doi:10.1017/s096804620300007x

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“…Note that the 1884 printing has reversed the image, ie, what is shown as the left side of the skull is in fact the right, and vice versa. Lower right is part of the occipital an estimated stature of c. 166 cm (Holliday & Churchill 2003), both individuals fit comfortably within the range for male stature of 161.3 ± 5.8 cm for the western European Mesolithic (Formicola & Giannecchini 1999, tab. 5).…”

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“…Estimating the length of the incomplete right femur as c. 40.2 cm allows the calculation of a living stature of 158.8 ± 4 cm (or just over 5 ft 2 in) (using Trotter and Gleser's formula for Caucasian males, in Bass 1987, 221). While this is shorter than the Early Mesolithic ‘Cheddar Man’ from Gough's Cave, Somerset, with an estimated stature of c. 166 cm (Holliday & Churchill 2003), both individuals fit comfortably within the range for male stature of 161.3 ± 5.8 cm for the western European Mesolithic (Formicola & Giannecchini 1999, tab. 5).…”

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‘Tilbury Man’: A Mesolithic Skeleton from the Lower Thames

Schulting

2013

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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Tilbury Man' is the partial skeleton of an adult male found in 1883 during the construction of new docks at Tilbury, Essex, on the north shore of the Thames, approximately half way between London and the mouth of the estuary. At the time the find stirred considerable interest due to its depth of nearly 10 m, with the eminent biologist and palaeontologist Sir Richard Owen hailing it as being of Palaeolithic age, though most subsequent (and even contemporary) researchers assigned it to the early Holocene. AMS radiocarbon dating now places the skeleton in the Late Mesolithic, 6065-5912 cal BC. This paper presents the circumstances of the find, describes the surviving skeletal elements, including two healed cranial injuries, and places Tilbury in the context of what little is known regarding Late Mesolithic burial practices in Britain.

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