| Balkan Prehistory Palaeolithic |
| An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase [The cave with bones], Romania |
© 2009 International Institute of
Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 2-01-09
Anthropology, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
© 2009 Lolita Nikolova, PhD
Created: 2-01-09
The text has been published at http://de.scientificcommons.org/11675957
An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania
Trinkaus, Erik, Moldovan, Oana, Milota, ştefan, Bîlgăr, Adrian, Sarcina, Laurenţiu, Athreya, Sheela, Bailey, Shara E., Rodrigo, Ricardo, Mircea, Gherase,
Higham, Thomas, Ramsey, Christopher Bronk, Van Der Plicht, Johannes
Abstract
The 2002 discovery of a robust modern human mandible in the Peştera cu Oase, southwestern Romania, provides evidence of early modern humans in the lower
Danubian Corridor. Directly accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (14C)-dated to 34,000–36,000 14C years B.P., the Oase 1 mandible is the oldest definite
early modern human specimen in Europe and provides perspectives on the emergence and evolution of early modern humans in the northwestern Old World.
The moderately long Oase 1 mandible exhibits a prominent tuber symphyseos and overall proportions that place it close to earlier Upper Paleolithic European
specimens. Its symmetrical mandibular incisure, medially placed condyle, small superior medial pterygoid tubercle, mesial mental foramen, and narrow corpus
place it closer to early modern humans among Late Pleistocene humans. However, its cross-sectional symphyseal orientation is intermediate between late
archaic and early modern humans, the ramus is exceptionally wide, and the molars become progressively larger distally with exceptionally large third molars.
The molar crowns lack derived Neandertal features but are otherwise morphologically undiagnostic. However, it has unilateral mandibular foramen lingular
bridging, an apparently derived Neandertal feature. It therefore presents a mosaic of archaic, early modern human and possibly Neandertal morphological
features, emphasizing both the complex population dynamics of modern human dispersal into Europe and the subsequent morphological evolution of European
early modern humans.
See also other external links:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/20/11231.abstract
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C5%9Ftera_cu_Oase
Comment:
The data from the Peştera cu Oase infer the interaction model for the relationships between Neandertal and the Homo Sapiens Sapiens although popular is the
out of Africa theory with complete replacement (L.N.)
An early modern human from the Peştera cu Oase, Romania
Trinkaus, Erik, Moldovan, Oana, Milota, ştefan, Bîlgăr, Adrian, Sarcina, Laurenţiu, Athreya, Sheela, Bailey, Shara E., Rodrigo, Ricardo, Mircea, Gherase,
Higham, Thomas, Ramsey, Christopher Bronk, Van Der Plicht, Johannes
Abstract
The 2002 discovery of a robust modern human mandible in the Peştera cu Oase, southwestern Romania, provides evidence of early modern humans in the lower
Danubian Corridor. Directly accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (14C)-dated to 34,000–36,000 14C years B.P., the Oase 1 mandible is the oldest definite
early modern human specimen in Europe and provides perspectives on the emergence and evolution of early modern humans in the northwestern Old World.
The moderately long Oase 1 mandible exhibits a prominent tuber symphyseos and overall proportions that place it close to earlier Upper Paleolithic European
specimens. Its symmetrical mandibular incisure, medially placed condyle, small superior medial pterygoid tubercle, mesial mental foramen, and narrow corpus
place it closer to early modern humans among Late Pleistocene humans. However, its cross-sectional symphyseal orientation is intermediate between late
archaic and early modern humans, the ramus is exceptionally wide, and the molars become progressively larger distally with exceptionally large third molars.
The molar crowns lack derived Neandertal features but are otherwise morphologically undiagnostic. However, it has unilateral mandibular foramen lingular
bridging, an apparently derived Neandertal feature. It therefore presents a mosaic of archaic, early modern human and possibly Neandertal morphological
features, emphasizing both the complex population dynamics of modern human dispersal into Europe and the subsequent morphological evolution of European
early modern humans.
See also other external links:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/20/11231.abstract
Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pe%C5%9Ftera_cu_Oase
Comment:
The data from the Peştera cu Oase infer the interaction model for the relationships between Neandertal and the Homo Sapiens Sapiens although popular is the
out of Africa theory with complete replacement (L.N.)
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