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Re-analysis of the hominid radii from Cave of Hearths and Klasies River Mouth, South Africa.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Pearson, Osbjorn M. Grine, Frederick E. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Abstract | Two of the few postcranial fragments from the late Early Stone Age and/or the Middle Stone Age of southern Africa are the proximal radii from the Cave of Hearths and Klasies River Mouth. The Cave of Hearths fossil is metrically indistinguishable from both archaic (e.g., Neandertals) and recent humans, and presents a mosaic of primitive and modern features. The primitive include a relatively slender neck and thick cortical bone (the latter of which distinguishes recent humans from archaic, Early Modern, and Upper Paleolithic hominids); the modern includes an anteromedially (rather than medially) facing radial tuberosity. Its extreme collo-diaphyseal angle is unusual, although it can be matched by modern homologues. The neck-shaft angle of some Neandetral and Early Modern radii also appears to match that of the Cave of Hearths specimen. The Klasies River Mouth radius also has thick cortical bone of the neck. It is morphologically indistinguishable from Early Modern and Neandertal homologues. These, and other fossils, suggest a mosaic pattern of evolution in the postcranial skeleton of the late Early Stone Age and/or Middle Stone Age inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1006/jhev.1996.0127 |
| PubMed reference number | 9210019 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 32 |
| Issue Number | 6 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://in-africa.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Pearson-Grine-1997-JHE-Re-analysis-of-the-hominid-radii-from-Cave-of-Hearths-and-Klasies-River-Mouth-South-Africa.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/archaeology/Publications/Palaeolithic/Cave%20of%20Hearths%20and%20Klasies%20River%20Mouth.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1006/jhev.1996.0127 |
| Journal | Journal of human evolution |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
