Levantine cranium from Manot Cave (Israel) foreshadows the first European modern humans

Nature

Volumn 520, Issue 7546, 2015, Pages 216-219

  Hershkovitz, Israel ^a   Marder, Ofer ^b   Ayalon, Avner ^c   Bar Matthews, Miryam ^c   Yasur, Gal ^c   Boaretto, Elisabetta ^d   Caracuta, Valentina ^d   Alex, Bridget ^d,e   Frumkin, Amos ^f   Goder Goldberger, Mae ^f   Gunz, Philipp ^g   Holloway, Ralph L ^h   Latimer, Bruce ⁱ   Lavi, Ron ^j   Matthews, Alan ^f   Slon, Viviane ^a,g   Mayer, Daniella Bar Yosef ^a   Berna, Francesco ^k   Bar Oz, Guy ^l   Yeshurun, Reuven ^l   May, Hila ^a   Hans, Mark G ⁱ   Weber, Gerhard W ^m   Barzilai, Omry ⁿ   more..

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

^d WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^e HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^h Institute of Archaeology Hebrew University of Jerusalem ^*  (United States)

ⁱ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j Department of Anthropology Columbia University ^*  (Israel)

^k SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^m UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

ⁿ ISRAEL ANTIQUITIES AUTHORITY   (Israel)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THORIUM 230; URANIUM 234;

ANATOMY; COLONIZATION; CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; HUMAN EVOLUTION; NEANDERTHAL; PALEOBIOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC;

ADULT; AFRICAN; ARTICLE; CALVARIA; CAVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUROPE; EUROPEAN; FEMALE; FOSSIL HUMAN; FRONTAL BONE; HOMO NEANDERTHALENSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISRAEL; MALE; MESOLITHIC; MIGRATION; OCCIPITAL BONE; PALEOLITHIC; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKULL; SUPERIOR SAGITTAL SINUS; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; AFRICA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; ETHNOLOGY; FOSSIL; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

GALILEE; ISRAEL; LEVANT; MANOT CAVE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; NORTHERN DISTRICT;

AFRICA; ANIMALS; CAVES; EUROPE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; ISRAEL; NEANDERTHALS; PHYLOGENY; SKULL;

EID: 84927165574     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature14134     Document Type: Article

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