The Qesem Cave hominin material (part 2): A morphometric analysis of dm2-QC2 deciduous lower second molar

Quaternary International

Volumn 398, Issue , 2016, Pages 175-189

  Fornai, Cinzia ^a,b   Benazzi, Stefano ^c,d   Gopher, Avi ^e   Barkai, Ran ^e   Sarig, Rachel ^e   Bookstein, Fred L ^a,f   Hershkovitz, Israel ^e   Weber, Gerhard W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^e TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^f UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Homo; Levant; Middle Pleistocene; Milk tooth; Neanderthals; Relative enamel thickness

Indexed keywords

HOMINID; MORPHOMETRY; PLEISTOCENE; SKELETAL REMAINS; TOOTH;

CENTRAL DISTRICT; ISRAEL; QESEM CAVE;

EID: 84954289134     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.11.102     Document Type: Article

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