Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Morphological Variation in West Asian Postcrania

Implications for Obstetric and Locomotor Behavior

  • Chapter
Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia

  • 527 Accesses

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this chapter

Log in via an institution
Chapter
USD 29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD 129.00
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD 169.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Institutional subscriptions

Preview

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.

References

  • Akazawa, T., S. Muhesen, Y. Dodo, O. Kondo, and Y. Mizoguchi. 1995. Neanderthal infant burial. Nature 377:585–6.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Baba, H., and B. Endo. 1982. Postcranial skeleton of the Minatogawa Man, 61–195. In The Minatogawa Man, ed. H. Suzuki and K. Hanihara. Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bar Yosef, O., B. Vandermeersch, B. Arensburg, A. Belfer-Cohen, P. Goldberg, H. Laville, L. Meignen. Y. Rak, J. D. Speth, E. Tchernov, A. M. Tillier, and S. Wiener. 1992. The excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel. Current Anthropology 33:497–550.

    Google Scholar 

  • Berge, C., R. Orban-Segebarth, and P. Schmid. 1984. Obstetrical interpretation of the australopithecine pelvic cavity. Journal ofHuman Evolution 13:573–87.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chen, T, Q. Yang, and E. Wu. 1994. Antiquity of Homo sapiens in China. Nature 368:55–6.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Davivongs, V. 1963. The pelvic girdle of the Australian Aborigine: Sex differences and sex determination. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 21:443–5.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dean, M. C., C. B. Stringer, and T. G. Bromage. 1986. Age at death of the Neanderthal child from Devil’s Tower, Gibraltar, and the implications for studies of general growth and development in Neanderthals. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 70:301–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Frayer, D. 1988. Response to “The functional significance of Neandertal pubic morphology.” Current Anthropology 29:608.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Friedlander, N. J., and D. K. Jordan. 1994. Obstetric implications of Neanderthal robusticity and bone density. Human Evolution 9:331–42.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hager, L. 1989. The Evolution of Sex Differences in the Hominid Bony Pelvis. Ph. D. Diss. University of California. Berkeley.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hager, L. 1991. The evidence for sex differences in the hominid fossil record, 46–9. In The Archaeology ofGender. Proceedings of the Twenty-second Annual Conference of the Archaeological Association of the University of Calgary, ed. D. Walde and N. D. Willows. Calgary: University of Calgary Archaeological Association.

    Google Scholar 

  • Hanna, R. E., and S. L. Washburn. 1953. The determination of the sex of skeletons, as illustrated by a study of the Eskimo pelvis. Human Biology 25:21–7.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lande, R. 1980. Sexual dimorphism, sexual selection, and adaptation in polygenic characters. Evolution 34:292–305.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lovejoy, C. O. 1975. Biomechanical perspectives on the lower limb of early hominids, 291–326. In Primate Functional Morphology and Evolution, ed. R. H. Tuttle. The Hague: Mouton Publishers.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lovejoy, C. O. 1988 Evolution of human walking. Scientific American 259(5):118–25.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Lovejoy, C. O., and E. Trinkaus. 1980. Strength and robusticity of the Neandertal tibia. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 53:465–70.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lü, Z. 1990. La découverte de ľhomme fossile de Jing-niu-shan: Premiere etude. ĽAnthropologie (Paris) 94:899–902.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lü, Z. 1995. Study of the hip bone of Jinniushan Man. Quarterly Journal of Historical Relics (english summary) 2:1–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • McCown, T. D., and A. Keith. 1939. The Stone Age of Mount Carmel. Vol. 2, The Fossil Human Remains from the Levalloiso-Mousterian. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Minugh-Purvis, N. 1988. Patterns of Craniofacial Growth and Development in Upper Pleistocene Hominids. Ph. D. Diss. University of Pennyslvania. Philadelphia.

    Google Scholar 

  • Minugh-Purvis, N. n.d. The neurocranial evidence for Neandertal birth. Unpublished manuscript.

    Google Scholar 

  • Phenice, T. D. 1969. A newly developed visual method of sexing the os pubis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 30:297–302.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rak, Y. 1990. On the differences between two pelvises of Mousterian context from the Qafzeh and Kebara Caves, Israel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 81:323–32.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rak, Y. 1991 a. The pelvis, 147–56. In Le Squelette Moustérien de Kébara, ed. O. Bar-Yosef and B. Vandermeersch. Paris: CNRS Editions.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rak, Y. I99lb. Lucy’s pelvic anatomy: Its role in bipedal gait. Journal ofHuman Evolution 20:283–90.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rak, Y. 1993. Morphological variation in Homo neanderthalensis and Homo sapiens in the Levant: A biogeographic model, 523–36. In Species, Species Concepts, and Primate Evolution, ed. W. H. Kimbel and L. B. Martin. New York: Plenum Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rak, Y, and B. Arensburg. 1987. A new Neanderthal pelvis: First look at a complete inlet. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73:227–31.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R. 1986. The Functional Significance of Neandertal Pubic Morphology. Ph. D. Diss. University of Michigan. Ann Arbor.

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R. 1988. The functional significance of Neandertal pubic length. Current Anthropology 29:595–617.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R. 1992. The evolution of modern human childbirth. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology 35:89–124

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R. 1993. Regional features in an upper Pleistocene Chinese pelvis: Implications for sex diagnosis. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 16:168 (abstract).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R., and Z. Lü. 1997 The pelvis of the Jinniushan specimen: An East Asian perspective on Neandertal morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, Supplement 24:199–200 (abstract).

    Google Scholar 

  • Rosenberg, K. R., and W. Trevathan. 1996. Bipedalism and human birth: The obstetrical dilemma revisited. Evolutionary Anthropology 4:161–8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruff, C. B. 1995. Biomechanics of the hip and birth in early Homo. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 98:527–74.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ruff, C. B., E. Trinkaus, A. Walker, and C. S. Larsen 1993. Postcranial robusticity in Homo I: Temporal trends and mechanical interpretation. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 91:21–53.

    Google Scholar 

  • Smith, F. H. 1976. The Neandertal Remains from Krapina: A Descriptive and Comparative Study. University of Tennessee Department of Anthropology Reports of Investigations 15.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stewart, T. D. 1960, Form of the pubic bone in Neanderthal man. Science 131:1437–8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Stewart, T. D. 1977. The Neanderthal skeletal remains from Shanidar Cave, Iraq: A summary of findings to date. Proceedings ofthe American Philosophical Society 121:121–65.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tague, R. G. 1992. Sexual dimorphism in the human bony pelvis, with a consideration of the Neandertal pelvis from Kebara Cave, Israel. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 88:1–21.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tague, R. G., and C. O. Lovejoy. 1986. The obstetric pelvis of A. L. 288–1 (Lucy). Journal of Human Evolution 15:237–55.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tillier, A. 1992a. The origins of modern humans in southwest Asia: Ontogenetic aspects, 15–28. In The Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia ed. T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and T. Kimura. Tokyo: Hokusen-sha.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tillier, A. 1992b. Reproductive patterns in Neanderthals: A source for critical analysis. Collegium Anthropologium 16:53–8.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tillier, A., T. Majo, and J. Bružek. 1995. Limites ďune approche “bio-culturelle” des populations anciennes: Ľexemple du complexe femoro-pelvien des Neanderthaliens, 579–95. In Nature et Culture, Colloque de Liége. ed. M. Otte. Liége: Université de Liége.

    Google Scholar 

  • Tompkins, R. L., and E. Trinkaus. 1987. La Ferrassie 6 and the development of Neandertal pubic morphology. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 73:233–9.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trevathan, W. 1987. Human Birth: An Evolutionary Perspective. New York: Aldine de Gruyter.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trevathan, W. 1988. Fetal emergence patterns in evolutionary perspective. American Anthropologist 90:674–81.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trinkaus, E. 1976. The morphology of European and southwest Asian Neandertal pubic bones. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 44:95–104.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Trinkaus, E. 1983. Neandertal postcrania and adaptive shift to modern humans, 165–200, In The Mousterian Legacy: Human Biocultural Change in the Upper Pleistocene, ed. E. Trinkaus. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports International Series 164.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trinkaus, E. 1984. Neandertal pubic morphology and gestation length. Current Anthropology 25:509–14.

    Google Scholar 

  • Trinkaus, E. 1992. Morphological contrasts between the Near Eastern Qafzeh-Skhul and late Archaic human samples: Grounds for a behavioral difference?, 277–94. In The Evolution and Dispersal of Modern Humans in Asia, ed. T. Akazawa, K. Aoki, and T. Kimura. Tokyo: Hokusen-sha.

    Google Scholar 

  • Walrath, D. E., and M. M. Glantz. 1996. Sexual dimorphism in the pelvic midplane and its relationship to Neandertal reproductive patterns. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 100:89–100.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Washburn, S. L. 1948. Sex differences in the pubic bone. American Journal ofPhysical Anthropology 6:199–207.

    Google Scholar 

  • Washburn, S. L. 1949. Sex differences in the pubic bone of Bantu and Bushmen. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 7:425–32.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolpoff, M. 1980, Paleoanthropology. New York: Knopf.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wolpoff, M. 1999. Paleoanthropology. 2nd edition. New York: McGraw Hill.

    Google Scholar 

  • Woo, J. 1959. Human fossils found in Liukiang, Kwangsi, China. Palaeovertebrata et Palaeoanthropologica 1:97–104.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu, X., and M. Wu. 1985. Early Homo sapiens in China, 91–106. In Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People’s Republic of China, ed. R. Wu and J. W. Olsen. Orlando: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu, X., and Z. Zhang. 1985. Homo sapiens remains from Late Paleolithic and Neolithic China, 107–33. In Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology in the People’s Republic of China, ed. R. Wu and J. W. Olsen. Orlando: Academic Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Wu, X., X. Shao, and H. Wang. 1982. Sex differences and sex determination of the innominate bone of modern Han nationality. Ada Anthropologica Sinica 1:118–31.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, 19716

    Karen R. Rosenberg

Authors
  1. Karen R. Rosenberg
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan

    Takeru Akazawa

  2. University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenichi Aoki

  3. Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

    Ofer Bar-Yosef

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2002 Kluwer Acadamic Publishers

About this chapter

Cite this chapter

Rosenberg, K.R. (2002). Morphological Variation in West Asian Postcrania. In: Akazawa, T., Aoki, K., Bar-Yosef, O. (eds) Neandertals and Modern Humans in Western Asia. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47153-1_23

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-47153-1_23

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Boston, MA

  • Print ISBN: 978-0-306-45924-5

  • Online ISBN: 978-0-306-47153-7

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation