Stature estimation from complete long bones in the Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sima de los Huesos, Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 242-255

  Carretero, José Miguel ^a,b   Rodríguez, Laura ^a   García González, Rebeca ^a   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^b,c   Gómez Olivencia, Asier ^d   Lorenzo, Carlos ^b,e   Bonmatí, Alejandro ^b,c   Gracia, Ana ^b,f   Martínez, Ignacio ^b,f   Quam, Rolf ^b,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^g BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Body size; European hominins; Fossil humans; Homo heidelbergensis; Limb bones; Spain

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; BONE; FOSSIL; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION ESTIMATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; TAXONOMY; TYPE SPECIMEN;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; EAST AFRICA; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SPAIN;

HOMO ERGASTER; HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84856549497     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2011.11.004     Document Type: Article

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