ANTH 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Striking Platform, Prepared-Core Technique, Cro-Magnon
22 Mar 2016
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: neandertals: large arching browridges, low forehead, large cranial capacity, occipital bun, no chin- vertical or backward sloping surface: primitive retention, projecting midface, laterally reduced supraorbital tori (found st. c saire) Postcranial anatomy: enlarged rib cage, long pubis, dorsal sulcus on scapula, narrow glenoid fossa, relatively short, bowed radius, robust finger bones with large apical tufts, stout, bowed femoral shaft, retroverted tibial plateau, relatively short tibia and fibula. **some (most) are likely primitive: long clavicle, wide scapula, barrel-shaped chest, wide hips, large hip joint, strong grip, rounded, thick shafts, large, thick patellae, large ankle bone, wide tow bones. Limb bone robusticity: very robust, barrel-chested, powerfully muscled, dominates hominin evolution, particularly robust with shorter limbs than in most h. sapiens. Teeth-as-tools (paramastication: neandertals did this, not exceptional in bite force capability, no support for heavy anterior dental loading. Fire- uses/complexity: older view: neandertals limited to simple pyrotechnology, and surface fires, current view: neandertal fire technology similar to the cpaabilities of early.
