HYPERTROPHY OF THE ACETABULO-CRISTAL BUTTRESS IN HOMO-SAPIENS

In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Miss issippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains o f a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabu lo-cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that o f Plio-Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically moder n degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness of the gluteal table of the ilium is app arently species-specific, hypertrophy of the acetabulo-cristal buttres s is developmental and may be expressed in all species of Homo. (C) 19 93 Wiley-Liss, Inc.