Journal article
A Reconstruction of the Shanidar 4 Facial Skeleton
Paléorient, Vol.22(1), pp.51-66
1996
DOI: 10.3406/paleo.1996.4626
Abstract
We have reconstructed the anterior craniofacial morphology of the probably last inter glacial Shanidar 4 hominid based on the midlines of the frontal and mandible, with the maxillae and the left zygomatic region aligned between them. reconstruction provides a frontal with a flat sagittal arc and a projecting mid-supraorbital torus. Shanidar 4 has a prognathic absolutely and relative to body size, combined with a zygomaxillary region that is prominent, angled and anterior relative to dental arcade. The infraorbital region is moderately concave. The Shanidar 4 craniofacial skeleton therefore presents one feature (frontal flatness - shared with Shanidar I and 5), one "Neandertal" feature (a projecting glabellar region - shared with "classic" Neandertals) and one more archaic complex (full-facial prognathism - shared with Middle Pleistocene and interglacial archaic humans).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Reconstruction of the Shanidar 4 Facial Skeleton
- Creators
- Erik TrinkausDavid D. ArterRobert G. Franciscus
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Paléorient, Vol.22(1), pp.51-66
- DOI
- 10.3406/paleo.1996.4626
- ISSN
- 0153-9345
- Language
- French
- Date published
- 1996
- Academic Unit
- Orthodontics; Anthropology
- Record Identifier
- 9984269227602771
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