The Neandertal vertebral column 1: The cervical spine

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 608-630

  Gómez Olivencia, Asier ^a,b   Been, Ella ^c,d   Arsuaga, Juan L ^b,e   Stock, Jay T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^c TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d The College of Sakhnin for Teacher Education   (Israel)

^e UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homo neanderthalensis; Late Pleistocene; Vertebrae

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; CRANIUM; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; VERTEBRATE;

HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84877642154     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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