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Neurocranial abnormalities in the Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Hexian, China | |
Wu, Xiu-Jie1,2; Bae, Christopher J.3; Guo, Xiao-Cong1; Liu, Wu1,2![]() | |
2021-01-08 | |
发表期刊 | INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
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ISSN | 1047-482X |
卷号 | 31期号:2页码:8 |
摘要 | The Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus cranium from Hexian (Hexian 1, PA 830), in central eastern China, has been studied fairly extensively with respect to its evolutionary position. However, analysis of a series of neurocranial abnormalities identified on the Hexian fossil has never been attempted. Here, we present the first study of these abnormalities identified on the Hexian cranium, including (1) multiple breakages (including cracking) that fracture radially across the whole vault, caused by taphonomic modifications; (2) postmortem erosional lacunae with a matrix layer on the external surface of the supraorbital torus; (3) and two healed lesions with resorption and new bone formation on the back of the head, likely the result of trauma (tensile trauma to the scalp or partial scalp removal) or burning (with damage to the scalp and superficial neurocranium). The Hexian 1 individual was a young adult and had experienced multiple neurocranial alterations of antemortem traumatic lesions and postmortem taphonomic damage. The Hexian 1 specimen adds to the growing list of examples of bone surface modifications on Pleistocene hominin fossils across the Old World-a list that documents clearly the high level of risk experienced by Middle Pleistocene hominins. |
关键词 | Hexian Homo erectus middle Pleistocene neurocranial abnormalities trauma |
DOI | 10.1002/oa.2950 |
关键词[WOS] | BLUNT HEAD TRAUMA ; HUMAN CRANIUM ; FRACTURE-PATTERNS ; SKULL ; FALLS ; DISCRIMINATION ; PROVINCE ; HISTORY ; BLOWS ; SITE |
收录类别 | SCI |
语种 | 英语 |
资助项目 | Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41672020] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41630102] |
WOS研究方向 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
WOS类目 | Anthropology ; Archaeology |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000605685200001 |
出版者 | WILEY |
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文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/18758 |
专题 | 中科院古脊椎所(2000年以后) |
通讯作者 | Wu, Xiu-Jie |
作者单位 | 1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Vertebrate Evolut & Human Origin, Beijing, Peoples R China 2.CAS Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Beijing, Peoples R China 3.Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Anthropol, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Wu, Xiu-Jie,Bae, Christopher J.,Guo, Xiao-Cong,et al. Neurocranial abnormalities in the Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Hexian, China[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,2021,31(2):8. |
APA | Wu, Xiu-Jie,Bae, Christopher J.,Guo, Xiao-Cong,&Liu, Wu.(2021).Neurocranial abnormalities in the Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Hexian, China.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,31(2),8. |
MLA | Wu, Xiu-Jie,et al."Neurocranial abnormalities in the Middle Pleistocene Homo erectus fossils from Hexian, China".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY 31.2(2021):8. |
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