Neanderthal Man

Centennial of Discovery of Neanderthal Man.

Periodontal disease and dental caries from Krapina Neanderthal to contemporary man - skeletal studies.

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was the quantification of alveolar bone resorption as well as the number and percentage of teeth with dental caries. MATERIALS AND METHODS Four samples of jaws and single teeth were studied from four time periods, i.e. from the Krapina Neanderthals (KN) who reportedly lived over 130,000 years ago, and groups of humans from the 1(st), 10(th) and 20(th) centuries...

Comparative anatomy of the larynx in man and the chimpanzee: implications for language in Neanderthal.

Using the larynges of the newborn human and chimpanzee as models, Lieberman and Crelin ('71) and Lieberman, Crelin and Klatt ('72) have reconstructed the larynx of the "classic" Neanderthal La Chapelle aux Saints. The authors used their reconstructed vocal tract to generate linguistic functions which led them to conclude that Neanderthal lacked the ability to produce fully articulate human spee...

Phonetic Ability and Related Anatomy of the Newborn and Adult Human, Neanderthal Man, and the Chimpanzee

The sounds of human speech make human language a rapid medium of communication through a process o f speech “encoding. I t The presence of sounds like the vowels [a] , [ i ] , and [u] makes this process possible. The supralaryngeal vocal tracts o f newborn Homo sapiens and chimpanzee are similar and resemble the reconstructed vocal tract o f the fossil La Chapellmux-Saints Neanderthal man. Voca...

The last Neanderthal.

The mechanism of the Neanderthal extinction and their replacement by modern humans of African origin is one of the most discussed issues in paleoanthropology. Central to this discussion are the questions of the chronological overlap between Neanderthal populations and modern humans in Western Eurasia and the precise geographical circumstances of this overlap. For a long time, the Vindija (Croat...