The Qesem Cave hominin material (part 1): A morphometric analysis of the mandibular premolars and molar

Quaternary International

Volumn 398, Issue , 2016, Pages 159-174

  Weber, Gerhard W ^a   Fornai, Cinzia ^a   Gopher, Avi ^b   Barkai, Ran ^b   Sarig, Rachel ^b   Hershkovitz, Israel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anatomically modern humans; Dental morphometrics; Late Pleistocene; Mid Pleistocene; Neanderthals; Virtual Anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANATOMY; ANTHROPOLOGY; FOSSIL; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; TOOTH;

CENTRAL DISTRICT; ISRAEL; QESEM CAVE; TEL AVIV;

EID: 84957928283     PISSN: 10406182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quaint.2015.10.027     Document Type: Article

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