The human cranial remains from Gran Dolina Lower Pleistocene site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)

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作者
Arsuaga, JL
Martínez, I
Lorenzo, C
Gracia, A
Muñoz, A
Alonso, O
Gallego, J
机构
[1] Univ Complutense Madrid, Dept Paleobiol, Fac Ciencias Geol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Complutense Madrid, Inst Geol Econ, CSIC, Unidad Asociada Paleoantropol, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[3] Univ Madrid, Dept Radiol & Med Fis, Hosp 12 Octubre, Carretera Andalucia, Madrid, Spain
[4] Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Fis, Dept Tecnol Comp & Automat, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
[5] Univ Complutense Madrid, Fac Ciencias Fis, Dept Astrofis, E-28040 Madrid, Spain
关键词
Lower Pleistocene; Gran Dolina; Atapuerca; cranium; Homo antecessor;
D O I
10.1006/jhev.1999.0309
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
030303 ;
摘要
In this article we study the cranial remains of the late Lower Pleistocene human fossils from Gran Dolina (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain), assigned to the new species Homo antecessor. The cranial remains belong to at least five individuals, both juveniles and adults. The most outstanding feature is the totally modem human morphology of the very complete face ATD6-69, representing the earliest occurrence of the modern face in the fossil record. The Gran Dolina fossils show in the face a suite of modem human apomorphies not found in earlier hominids nor in contemporary or earlier Homo erectus fossils. There are also traits in the Gran Dolina fossils shared with both Neandertals and modem humans, which reinforce the hypothesis that Neandertals and modern humans form a clade, and that the Gran Dolina fossils are a common ancestor to both lineages. (C) 1999 Academic Press.
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