THE ANTERO-LATERAL ZYGOMATIC PROJECTION I N FOSSIL AND LIVING HUMANS

Authors
MAUREILLE B
Citation
B. Maureille, THE ANTERO-LATERAL ZYGOMATIC PROJECTION I N FOSSIL AND LIVING HUMANS, Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes, 323(3), 1996, pp. 267-273
Citations number
24
Categorie Soggetti
Geosciences, Interdisciplinary
Journal title
Comptes rendus de l'Academie des sciences. Serie II. Sciences de la terre et des planetes → ACNP
ISSN journal
12518050
Volume
323
Issue
3
Year of publication
1996
Pages
267 - 273
Database
ISI
SICI code
1251-8050(1996)323:3<267:TAZPIN>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
The antero-lateral zygomatic projection, represented by an index (ISP) , is on average strong for Inuits, small for Europeans and Neandertals . It is very variable in Homo sapiens neanderthalensis before the isot opic stage 5, archaic Homo sapiens and probably also Homo erectus. Alt hough this projection is smallest in Neandertals after isotopic stage 5, the overlap of this population's metric variability with that of li ving humans is such that the antero-lateral zygomatic projection does not allow Homo sapiens neanderthalensis to be distinguished from Homo sapiens sapiens.