A new OH5 reconstruction with an assessment of its uncertainty

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-88

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,b   Strait, David S ^c   Weber, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer aided design; Fossil reconstruction; Geometric morphometrics; Paranthropus boisei; Virtual anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; CRANIUM; FOSSIL ASSEMBLAGE; HOMINID; MORPHOMETRY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEGMENTATION;

PARANTHROPUS BOISEI;

EID: 79956153840     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.02.005     Document Type: Article

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