Human talus bones from the Middle Pleistocene site of Sima de los Huesos (Sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 79-92

  Pablos, Adrián ^a,b   Martínez, Ignacio ^a,c   Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,d,e   Gracia, Ana ^a,c   Sala, Nohemi ^a,b   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

Author keywords

Ankle; Foot; Homo heidelbergensis; Homo neanderthalensis; Stature

Indexed keywords

BONE; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE;

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

HOMO HEIDELBERGENSIS; HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

EID: 84879171640     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.04.004     Document Type: Article

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