Comparisons of some cranial features on late Pleistocene and Holocene Chinese hominids (Zhoukoudian Upper-Cave, Longxian and Yanqing sites);Comparaison de l'expression de certains caractères crâniens sur les hominidés chinois du Pléistocène récent et de l'Holocène (grotte supérieure de Zhoukoudian, sites de Longxian et de Yanqing)

Anthropologie

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 258-276

  Liu, Wu ^a   Vialet, Amélie ^b   Wu, Xiujie ^a,c   He, Jianing ^d   Lu, Jinyan ^a,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Holocene; Late Pleistocene; Modern human origins; Morphological variability; Non metric features; Upper Cave Man

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; CAVE; CRANIUM; HOLOCENE; HUMAN EVOLUTION; HUMAN SETTLEMENT; PLEISTOCENE;

ASIA; BEIJING [CHINA]; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST; ZHOUKOUDIAN;

HOMINIDAE;

EID: 33744901163     PISSN: 00035521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anthro.2006.03.001     Document Type: Article

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