Bone remodelling in Neanderthal mandibles from the El Sidrón site (Asturias, Spain)

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 593-596

  Martinez Maza, Cayetana ^a,b   Rosas, Antonio ^b   García Vargas, Samuel ^b   Estalrrich, Almudena ^b   De La Rasilla, Marco ^c  

^a Sorbonne Universités   (France)

^b MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OVIEDO   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bone remodelling pattern; Growth; Histology; Morphology

Indexed keywords

BONE; GROWTH RATE; HISTOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; NUMERICAL MODEL; SKULL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BONE REMODELING; HISTOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; MANDIBLE; PALEONTOLOGY; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BONE REMODELING; HUMANS; MANDIBLE; NEANDERTHALS; PALEONTOLOGY; SPAIN;

ASTURIAS; SPAIN;

PRIMATES;

EID: 80051680148     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.1188     Document Type: Article

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