The costal skeleton of Homo antecessor: Preliminary results

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 620-640

  Gómez Olivencia, Asier ^a,b   Carretero, José Miguel ^a,c   Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,d   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,e   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^f   Carbonell, Eudald ^d,g  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^d INSTITUT CATALÀ DE PALEOECOLOGIA HUMANA I EVOLUCIÓ SOCIAL   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^f CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^g INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Gran Dolina TD6; Lower Pleistocene; Ribs; TD6; Thorax

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; PRIMATE; SKELETAL REMAINS; SKELETON;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; GRAN DOLINA; SPAIN;

HOMO ANTECESSOR; SUS;

EID: 78149408110     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2010.07.023     Document Type: Article

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