A fourth hominin skull from Dmanisi, Georgia

Anatomical Record - Part A Discoveries in Molecular, Cellular, and Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 288, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1146-1157

  Lordkipanidze, David ^a   Vekua, Abesalom ^a,b   Ferring, Reid ^c   Rightmire, G Philip ^d,e   Zollikofer, Christoph P E ^f   De León, Marcia S Ponce ^f   Agusti, Jordi ^g   Kiladze, Gocha ^a   Mouskhelishvili, Alexander ^a   Nioradze, Medea ^h   Tappen, Martha ⁱ  

^a Georgian National Museum   (Georgia)

^b Institute of Paleobiology   (Georgia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^g INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

^h Georgian Archeological Center   (Georgia)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniofacial morphology; Early Pleistocene; Homo erectus; Human evolution; Paleodeme; Species; Systematics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BONE REMODELING; BRAIN SIZE; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DURA MATER; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; FRONTAL LOBE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HOMINID; HOMO ERECTUS; HUMAN; LOWER PLEISTOCENE; MANDIBLE; MASTOID; MAXILLA; OCCIPITAL BONE; OSTEOLYSIS; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ARCHAEOLOGY; BONE REMODELING; BRAIN; CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSILS; FRONTAL BONE; GEORGIA (REPUBLIC); HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MASTOID; MAXILLA; OCCIPITAL BONE; ORGAN SIZE; PALEONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SKULL; TOOTH;

ANIMALIA; HOMO ERECTUS;

EID: 33750503228     PISSN: 0003276X     EISSN: 15524892     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.a.20379     Document Type: Article

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