ESR ages for Krapina hominids

The Krapina Occipital Bones

The Krapina fossils are the largest collection of Neandertals known, representing a unique opportunity to examine Neandertal variation at a single place and time. Because of the nature of the assemblage, knowledge about the collection as a whole must be obtained from the analyses of the individual skeletal elements. In this work I present a summary of a subset of the Krapina fragments, the occi...

The Krapina dental remains.

An analysis of age, specimen associations, demographic characteristics, and metric features is presented for the Krapina dental sample. A critical analysis of emergence criteria applicable to skeletal samples leads to an occlusal eruption schedule which can be used to determine wear rates. These are used to provide dental ages for the Krapina jaws and isolated teeth. A number of individual asso...

The Krapina Scapulae

The early Neandertal sample from Krapina preserves twenty partial scapulae, from immature and mature individuals, males and females. Their relatively broad scapulae and narrow glenoid fossae, similar to those of most Neandertals and contrasting with those of most early and recent modern humans, appear to be characteristic of archaic Homo generally, and they are therefore a retained ancestral co...

Patterns of Dental Sexual Dimorphism in Krapina

Sexual dimorphism is an important component of morphological variation and has been associated with a range of socioecological and cultural variables. Comparing patterns of dental sexual dimorphism in two Central European samples, Krapina and Pr fedmostí, may shed light on sexual differences in biocultural adaptation. However, studying sexual dimorphism in ancient populations needs to address m...

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