Antemortem trauma and survival in the late Middle Pleistocene human cranium from Maba, South China

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

Volumn 108, Issue 49, 2011, Pages 19558-19562

  Wu, Xiu Jie ^a   Schepartz, Lynne A ^a,b   Liu, Wu ^a   Trinkaus, Erik ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asia; Fracture; Injury; Skull

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTAL INJURY; AGGRESSION; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; BONE LESION; CHINA; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FRONTAL BONE; GLACIAL PERIOD; HUMAN; MIDDLE PLEISTOCENE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKULL INJURY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALS; CHINA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKULL; SURVIVAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 83755183404     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1117113108     Document Type: Article

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