A reassessment of the presumed Neandertal remains from San Bernardino Cave, Italy

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 89-94

  Benazzi, Stefano ^a   Peresani, Marco ^b   Talamo, Sahra ^a   Fu, Qiaomei ^a,c   Mannino, Marcello A ^a   Richards, Michael P ^a,d   Hublin, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

AMS radiocarbon dating; Ancient DNA; Homo neanderthalensis; Isotope analyses; Modern human; Root morphometry

Indexed keywords

ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOMETRY; MOUSTERIAN; NEANDERTHAL; RADIOCARBON DATING; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOOTH;

ITALY; VENETO;

HOMO SAPIENS; HOMO SAPIENS NEANDERTHALENSIS;

ANCIENT DNA; CARBON; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NITROGEN;

AMS RADIOCARBON DATING; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CAVE; CHEMISTRY; CHRONOLOGY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; FOSSIL; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; ISOTOPE ANALYSES; ITALY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODERN HUMAN; MOLAR TOOTH; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; ROOT MORPHOMETRY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOOTH ROOT;

AMS RADIOCARBON DATING; ANCIENT DNA; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; ISOTOPE ANALYSES; MODERN HUMAN; ROOT MORPHOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CARBON ISOTOPES; CAVES; CHRONOLOGY AS TOPIC; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FOSSILS; HUMANS; ITALY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NEANDERTHALS; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PALEODONTOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; RADIOMETRIC DATING; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TOOTH ROOT;

EID: 84891664122     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.09.009     Document Type: Article

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