Variability of the Upper Palaeolithic skulls from Předmostí near Přerov (Czech Republic): Craniometric comparison with recent human standards

Velemínská, Jana; Brůžek, Jaroslav; Velemínský, Petr; Bigoni, L.; Šefčáková, Alena; Katina, Stanislav

doi:10.1016/j.jchb.2007.12.003

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“…Late Pleistocene skulls have been found to display larger jaws (e.g. Velemínská et al 2008) and bigger teeth (e.g. Brace et al 1987) than Late Holocene skulls, and the craniofacial measurements of Late Pleistocene skulls from Africa, East Asia and Europe are mostly, on average, larger than the average craniofacial dimensions displayed by recent humans (Curnoe et al 2012).…”

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A Late Pleistocene woman from Tham Lod, Thailand: the influence of today on a face from the past

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“…Otherwise, the additional observations are based on high resolution digital scans of the temporal bones or detailed photographs that provide a clear view directly into the auditory meatus. For the lost Předmostí crania, observations are based on the sufficiently clear photographs in Velemínská and Brůžek [47]. The photographs and scans employed are available either as referenced in S1 Table or through the authors.…”

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External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans

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External auditory exostoses (EAE) have been noted among the Neandertals and a few other Pleistocene humans, but until recently they have been discussed primary as minor pathological lesions with possible auditory consequences. An assessment of available western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene human temporal bones with sufficiently preserved auditory canals (n = 77) provides modest levels of EAE among late Middle Pleistocene archaic humans (≈20%) and early modern humans (Middle Paleolithic: ≈25%; Early/Mid Upper Paleolithic: 20.8%; Late Upper Paleolithic: 9.5%). The Neandertals, however, exhibit an exceptionally high level of EAE (56.5%; 47.8% if two anomalous cases are considered normal). The levels of EAE for the early modern humans are well within recent human ranges of variation, frequencies which are low for equatorial inland and high latitude samples but occasionally higher elsewhere. The Early/Mid Upper Paleolithic frequency is nonetheless high for a high latitude sample under interpleniglacial conditions. Given the strong etiological and environmental associations of EAE development with exposure to cold water and/or damp wind chill, the high frequency of EAE among the Neandertals implies frequent aquatic resource exploitation, more frequent than the archeological and stable isotopic evidence for Middle Paleolithic/Neandertal littoral and freshwater resource foraging implies. As such, the Neandertal data parallel a similar pattern evident in eastern Eurasian archaic humans. Yet, factors in addition to cold water/wind exposure may well have contributed to their high EAE frequencies.

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Modern Humans in Europe

Herrera¹,

Garcia-Bertrand²

2018

Ancestral DNA, Human Origins, and Migrations

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Variability of the Upper Palaeolithic skulls from Předmostí near Přerov (Czech Republic): Craniometric comparison with recent human standards

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

A Late Pleistocene woman from Tham Lod, Thailand: the influence of today on a face from the past

A Late Pleistocene woman from Tham Lod, Thailand: the influence of today on a face from the past

External auditory exostoses among western Eurasian late Middle and Late Pleistocene humans

Modern Humans in Europe

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