Krapina and Saccopastore: Endocranial morphology in the pre-Würmian Europeans

Periodicum Biologorum

Volumn 108, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 433-441

  Bruner, Emiliano ^a   Manzi, Giorgio ^a   Holloway, Ralph ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Endocasts; Europe; Middle meningeal artery; Neanderthals; Paleoneurology

Indexed keywords

ALLOMETRY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CROATIA; DURA MATER; EUROPE; FRONTAL LOBE; MENINGEAL ARTERY; MENINX; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PARIETAL LOBE; SKULL; TAXONOMY; TEMPORAL LOBE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS;

EID: 33747016819     PISSN: 00315362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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