ARCH 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tabun Cave, Melanesians, Upper Paleolithic
17 Oct 2016
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Specimen is very different than tabun cave. Cranial capacity of 1740 cc much larger than a modern human. Dates to roughly 28,000 to 40,000 years ago. Receding forehead, divided brow ridge, rounded occipital bone (back/base of skull). One of the largest known cranial capacities for any hominid fossil (1740 cc). Long bones long and slender; hands large, with large joints. Thought to be roughly 10 months old. Foramen magnum (opening at base of skull for spinal chord) is oval in shape. Yielded remains of 7 adults and 2 infants. 4 of these individuals were deliberately buried. Some adult crania appear to have been deformed, possibly through deliberate binding. Dates from 50,000 to 26,000 years ago. Shanidar cave, in the zagros mountains of northeastern iraq, yielded partial skeletons of nine individuals, four of them deliberately buried. Shanidar 1 is a skeleton of a male who lived to be 30 to 45 years old, a very old age for prehistoric human.
