Middle Pleistocene human cranium from Tangshan (Nanjing), Southeast China: A new reconstruction and comparisons with Homo erectus from Eurasia and Africa

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 253-262

  Liu, Wu ^a   Zhang, Yinyun ^a   Wu, Xinzhi ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

China; Homo erectus; Nanjing

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARTICLE; ASIA; CHINA; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; EURASIA; EUROPE; FACIAL BONE; FOSSIL; HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; PLIOCENE; SKULL; TAXONOMY;

ANIMALS; CEPHALOMETRY; CHINA; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 20444424900     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20066     Document Type: Article

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