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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 144, Issue 4, Pages 505-515Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21428
Keywords
Late Pleistocene; Europe; humerus; femur; ulna; trapezium; phalanx; body proportions; body size
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- Spanish Government [CGL2005/02410/BTE, BOS/2002/02375, PB/98/0405, PB/92/0971]
- Murcian Regional Government [PSH93/52, 05584/ARQ/07, CTC/DGC/SPH/063/2001, CCE/DGC/IPH/SAR0/1998, CCE/DGC/IPH/SAR/1997, CE/DGC/IPH/SAR/011/1996, CCE/DGC/IPH/SAR/1995, CCE/DGC/IPH/SAR/1994, PSH/93/52]
- mayor and town council of Torre Pacheco
- Earthwatch Institute
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The Sima de las Palomas, southeastern Spain, has yielded a series of Neandertal postcranial remains, including immature and mature isolated elements and the fragmentary partial skeleton of a young adult (Palomas 92). The remains largely conform to the general late archaic/Neandertal morphological pattern in terms of humeral diaphyseal shape, pectoralis major tuberosity size and pillar thickness, ulnar coronoid process height, manual middle phalangeal epiphyseal breadth, manual distal phalangeal tuberosity shape and breadth, femoral diaphyseal shape, and probably body proportions. Palomas 92 contrasts with the Neandertals in having variably gracile hand remains, a more sellar trapezial metacarpal 1 facet, more anteroposteriorly expanded mid-proximal femoral diaphysis, and less robust pedal proximal phalanges. The Palomas Neandertals contrast with more northern European Neandertals particularly in various reflections of overall body size. Am J Phys Anthropol 144:505-515, 2011. (C) 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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