Early Pleistocene human hand phalanx from the Sima del Elefante (TE) cave site in Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 78, Issue , 2015, Pages 114-121

  Lorenzo, Carlos ^a,b,c   Pablos, Adrián ^c,d,e   Carretero, José Miguel ^c,d   Huguet, Rosa ^a,b,f   Valverdú, Josep ^a,b,f   Martinón Torres, María ^e   Arsuaga, Juan Luis ^c,g   Carbonell, Eudald ^a,b,f   Bermúdez de Castro, José María ^e  

^a UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

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

^c INSTITUTO DE SALUD CARLOS III   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BURGOS   (Spain)

^e CENTRO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIÓN SOBRE LA EVOLUCIÓN HUMANA CENIEH   (Spain)

^f Unit Associated to CSIC   (Spain)

^g UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Homo; Phalanges; Postcranial evolution; Western Europe

Indexed keywords

BONE; CAVE; CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE;

BURGOS [CASTILLA Y LEON]; CASTILLA Y LEON; SIERRA DE ATAPUERCA; SIMA DEL ELEFANTE; SPAIN;

HOMO HABILIS;

ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CAVE; EVOLUTION; FINGER PHALANX; FOSSIL; HOMINID; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CAVES; FINGER PHALANGES; FOSSILS; HOMINIDAE; SPAIN;

EID: 84919838802     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.08.007     Document Type: Article

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