Middle Pleistocene lower back and pelvis from an aged human individual from the Sima de los Huesos site, Spain

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 43, 2010, Pages 18386-18391

  Bonmatí, Alejandro ^a,b   Gómez Olivencia, Asier ^a,c   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b   Carretero, José Miguel ^d   Gracia, Ana ^a,e   Martínez, Ignacio ^a,e   Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,f   Bérmudez De Castro, José María ^g   Carbonell, Eudald ^f  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

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

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

Author keywords

Human evolution; Paleopathology; Sierra de Atapuerca; Spino pelvic morphology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ARTICLE; BAASTRUP DISEASE; BODY POSTURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; KYPHOSIS; LUMBAR SPINE; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PELVIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPAIN; SPINE DISEASE; SPONDYLOLISTHESIS;

AGING; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALEONTOLOGY; PELVIS; SPAIN;

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS;

EID: 78649884148     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1012131107     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. Ohman JC, et al. (2002) Stature-At-Death of KNM-WT 15000. Hum Evol 17:129-142.
2. Endo B, Kimura T (1970) The Amud Man and His Cave Site, eds Suzuki H, Takai F (Academic Press, Tokyo), pp 231-406.
3. Trinkaus E (1976) The morphology of European and Southwest Asian Neandertal pubic bones. Am J Phys Anthropol 44:95-103.
4. Rak Y, Arensburg B (1987) Kebara 2 Neanderthal pelvis: First look at a complete inlet. Am J Phys Anthropol 73:227-231.
5. Weber J, Pusch CM (2008) The lumbar spine in Neanderthals shows natural kyphosis. Eur Spine J 17(Suppl 2):S327-S330.
6. Been E (2005) The anatomy of the lumbar spine of Homo neanderthalensis and its phylogenetic and functional implications. (Translated from Hebrew) PhD thesis (Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel).
7. Been E, Peleg S, Marom A, Barash A (2010) Morphology and function of the lumbar spine of the Kebara 2 Neandertal. Am J Phys Anthropol 142:549-557.
8. Gómez-Olivencia A (2009) Paleobiological research on the vertebral column and thoracic cage of Pleistocene fossil humans, with special reference to the fossils from the Sierra de Atapuerca. (Translated from Spanish) PhD thesis (University of Burgos, Burgos, Spain).
9. McHenry HM (1975) A new pelvic fragment from Swartkrans and the relationship between the robust and gracile australopithecines. Am J Phys Anthropol 43:245-262.
10. Rosenberg K (1998) Neandertals and Modern Human in Western Asia, eds Akazawa T, Aoki K, Bar-Yosef O (Plenum, New York), pp 367-379.
11. Arsuaga JL, et al. (1999) A complete human pelvis from the Middle Pleistocene of Spain. Nature 399:255-258.
12. Simpson SW, et al. (2008) A female Homo erectus pelvis from Gona, Ethiopia. Science 322:1089-1092.
13. Arsuaga JL, Martínez I, Gracia A, Lorenzo C (1997) The Sima de los Huesos crania (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). A comparative study. J Hum Evol 33:219-281. (Pubitemid 28038946)
14. Martínez I, Arsuaga JL (1997) The temporal bones from Sima de los Huesos Middle Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). A phylogenetic approach. J Hum Evol 33:283-318. (Pubitemid 127435654)
15. Bischoff JL, et al. (2007) High-resolution U-series dates from the Sima de los Huesos hominids yields 600 +infinite/-66 kyrs: Implications for the evolution of the early Neanderthal lineage. J Archaeol Sci 34:763-770.
16. Bermúdez de Castro JM, Martinón-Torres M, Lozano M, Sarmiento S, Muela A (2004) Paleodemography of the Atapuerca-Sima de los Huesos hominin sample: A revision and new approaches to the paleodemography of the European Middle Pleistocene population. J Anthropol Res 60:5-26. (Pubitemid 38526378)
17. Bonmatí A, Arsuaga JL (2005) Inventory and preliminary description of Middle Pleistocene pelvis remains from the site of Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca (Spain). Am J Phys Anthropol 126(Suppl 40):76.
18. Ruff CB (2010) Body size and body shape in early hominins - Implications of the Gona pelvis. J Hum Evol 58:166-178.
19. Arsuaga JL, Martínez I, Gracia A (2001) Phylogenetic analysis of the hominids from Sierra de Atapuerca (Sima de los Huesos and Gran Dolina TD-6): The cranial evidence (Translated from French). Anthropologie 105:161-178.
20. Arsuaga JL, Carretero JM (1994) Multivariate analysis of the sexual dimorphism of the hip bone in a modern human population and in early hominids. Am J Phys Anthropol 93:241-257.
21. Weaver TD, Hublin JJ (2009) Neandertal birth canal shape and the evolution of human childbirth. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:8151-8156.
22. Arensburg B (1991) The Mousterian Skeleton of Kebara 2, (Translated from French) eds Bar-Yosef O, Vandermeersch B (Éditions du CNRS, Paris), pp 113-147.
23. Ogilvie MD, Hilton CE, Ogilvie CD (1998) Lumbar anomalies in the Shanidar 3 Neandertal. J Hum Evol 35:597-610.
24. Digiovanni BF, Scoles PV, Latimer BM (1989) Anterior extension of the thoracic vertebral bodies in Scheuermann's kyphosis. An anatomic study. Spine (Phila PA 1976) 14:712-716.
25. Duval-Beaupère G, Schmidt C, Cosson P (1992) A barycentremetric study of the sagittal shape of spine and pelvis: The conditions required for an economic standing position. Ann Biomed Eng 20:451-462.
26. Peleg S, et al. (2007) Orientation of the human sacrum: Anthropological perspectives and methodological approaches. Am J Phys Anthropol 133:967-977.
27. Marty C, et al. (2002) The sagittal anatomy of the sacrum among young adults, infants, and spondylolisthesis patients. Eur Spine J 11:119-125.
28. Rajnics P, Templier A, Skalli W, Lavaste F, Illes T (2002) The importance of spinopelvic parameters in patients with lumbar disc lesions. Int Orthop 26:104-108. (Pubitemid 36056237)
29. Boulay C, et al. (2006) Sagittal alignment of spine and pelvis regulated by pelvic incidence: Standard values and prediction of lordosis. Eur Spine J 15:415-422.
30. Legaye J (2007) The femoro-sacral posterior angle: An anatomical sagittal pelvic parameter usable with dome-shaped sacrum. Eur Spine J 16:219-225.
31. Barnes E (1994) Developmental Defects of the Axial Skeleton in Paleopathology (University Press of Colorado, Niwot, Colorado).
32. Scheuer L, Black S (2000) Developmental Juvenile Osteology (Academic Press, London).
33. Pérez PJ (2003) Paleopathology. The Unwritten Disease (Translated from Spanish), eds Isidro A, Malgosa A (Masson, Barcelona), pp 295-306.
34. Ortner DJ (2003) Identification of Pathological Conditions in Human Skeletal Remains (Academic Press, New York).
35. Merbs CF (1996) Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis: A cost of being an erect biped or a clever adaptation? Am J Phys Anthropol 39:201-228.
36. Takemitsu Y, Harada Y, Iwahara T, Miyamoto M, Miyatake Y (1988) Lumbar degenerative kyphosis. Clinical, radiological and epidemiological studies. Spine (Phila PA 1976) 13:1317-1326.
37. Jang JS, Lee SH, Min JH, Han KM (2007) Lumbar degenerative kyphosis: Radiologic analysis and classifications. Spine (Phila PA 1976) 32:2694-2699.
38. Baastrup CI (1933) On the spinous processes of the lumbar vertebrae and the soft tissues between them, and on pathological changes in that region. Acta Radiol 14:52-55.
39. Labelle H, et al. (2008) Spino-pelvic alignment after surgical correction for developmental spondylolisthesis. Eur Spine J 17:1170-1176.
40. Barrey C, Jund J, Noseda O, Roussouly P (2007) Sagittal balance of the pelvis-spine complex and lumbar degenerative diseases. A comparative study about 85 cases. Eur Spine J 16:1459-1467.
41. Clifford PD (2007) Baastrup disease. Am J Orthop 36:560-561.
42. Rosas A, Pérez PJ, Bone J (1999) Senescence in European Middle Pleistocene hominids: The Atapuerca evidence. Hum Evol 14:83-98. (Pubitemid 129593391)
43. Caspari R, Lee SH (2004) Older age becomes common late in human evolution. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 101:10895-10900.
44. Lordkipanidze D, et al. (2005) Anthropology: The earliest toothless hominin skull. Nature 434:717-718.
45. Gracia A, et al. (2009) Craniosynostosis in the Middle Pleistocene human Cranium 14 from the Sima de los Huesos, Atapuerca, Spain. Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 106:6573-6578.
46. DeGusta D (2002) Comparative skeletal pathology and the case for conspecific care in Middle Pleistocene hominids. J Archaeol Sci 29:1435-1438.
47. Arsuaga JL, et al. (1997) Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain). The site. J Hum Evol 33:109-127. (Pubitemid 28038951)