Interdisziplinäre Gesichtsrekonstruktion einer Moorleiche

Püschel, Klaus; Säring, Dennis; Käsemann, P.; Scheuermann, Sebastian; Kreutz, Kerstin; Ohlrogge, Sabine; Wittwer-Backofen, Ursula; Burrath, S.; Wilkinson, Caroline; Bauerochse, Andreas; Schultz, Maryline; Jopp, Eilin

doi:10.1007/s00194-011-0762-0

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“…The virtual reconstruction of deformed models is a common image‐processing task, for example, in the fields of medical and forensic image analysis (Püschel et al, ; Auf der Mauer et al, ). Here, a number of bone deformations and the absence of bone structures have to be reconstructed.…”

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Virtual Reconstruction and Comparative Analyses of the Middle Pleistocene Apidima 2 Cranium (Greece)

Bräuer¹,

Pitsios

Säring

et al. 2019

The Anatomical Record

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The Apidima 2 fossil cranium from South Peloponnese is one of the most important hominin specimens from Southeast Europe. Nevertheless, there has been continuous controversy as to whether it represents a so-called Preneandertal/Homo heidelbergensis such as, for example, the Petralona cranium from Northern Greece or a more derived Neandertal. Recent absolute dating evidence alone cannot clarify the issue because both classifications would be possible during the respective Middle Pleistocene time span. Since only limited data were available on the cranium, there have been repeated claims for the need of a broader comparative study of the hominin. The present article presents a CTbased virtual reconstruction including corrections of postmortem fractures and deformation as well as detailed metrical and morphological analyses of the specimen. Endocranial capacity could be estimated for the first time based on virtual reconstruction. Our multivariate analyses of metric data from the face and vault revealed close affinities to early and later Neandertals, especially showing the derived facial morphometrics. In addition, comparative analyses of Apidima 2 were done for many derived Neandertal features. Here again, a significant number of Neandertal features could be found in the Apidima cranium but no conditions common in Preneandertals. In agreement with a later Middle Pleistocene age Apidima is currently the earliest evidence of a hominin in Europe with such a derived Neandertal facial morphology. The place of Apidima in the complex process of Neandertal evolution as well as its taxonomic classification are discussed as well. Anat Rec, 303:1374Rec, 303: -1392Rec, 303: , 2020

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confidence: 99%