A Complete Skull from Dmanisi, Georgia, and the Evolutionary Biology of Early Homo

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) - Tập 342 Số 6156 - Trang 326-331 - 2013
David Lordkipanidze1, Marcia S. Ponce de León2, Ann Margvelashvili2,1, Yoel Rak3, G. Philip Rightmire4, Abesalom Vekua1, Christoph P. E. Zollikofer2
1Georgian National Museum, 3 Purtseladze Street, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia.
2Anthropological Institute and Museum, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Switzerland.
3Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
4Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Tóm tắt

A Heady Find In the past two decades, excavations at the archaeological site at Dmanisi, Georgia, have revealed hominin fossils from the earliest Pleistocene, soon after the genus Homo first dispersed beyond Africa. Lordkipanidze et al. (p. 326 ; see the cover) now describe a fossil cranium from the site. Combined with mandibular remains that had been found earlier, this find completes the first entire hominin skull from this period.

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