Predmost 3
Predmost 3 is an archaeological find from central Europe in the Czech republic, and is geologically dated as Late Pleistocene.
Description
The find is a skull found in Predmosti, Moravia, and dated to 26,000yB.P.[1] (25,000 years (ka)[2]) 30,000 B.P.,[3] ( 30,000-12,000 B.P.[4])[5] and has a cranial capacity of 1580 cubic centimetres (Holloway 2000;Holloway et al 2004)[6]
Fate
The skull was destroyed in the Second World War by Nazi Germany.[7][8]
Analysis
In a morphometric analysis including Predmost3 (with five differing hominid skull finds) of variables in cranium dimensions [cranio-facial traits] compared to Homo sapiens sapiens Predmost three was found to correlate to a 73% similarity.(Lubson,Corruccini)[9]
“ | Upper Paleolithic skulls are at least as flat-faced as modern ones, except for Predmosti 3[10] | ” |
The skull belongs to a morphological Upper Palaeolithic group that is including Grotte des Enfants 4, Barma Grande 5 and Pavlov and Sunghir 1.[11]
References
- ↑ Clark Spencer Larsen, Robert M. Matter, Daniel Lee Gebo
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- 753 pages
- Volume 1845 of Garland reference library of the humanities
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- ↑ modernhumanorigins.net - (Amazon.com)Retrieved 2012-01-02
- ↑ Matt Cartmill, Fred H. Smith
- The human lineage
- 609 pages
- John Wiley and Sons, 30 Mar 2009
- ISBN 0-471-21491-4
- Retrieved 2012-01-02
- ↑ Michigan State University Retrieved 2012-01-02
- ↑ Author:Jiří A. Svoboda
- Title: The Upper Paleolithic burial area at Předmostí: ritual and taphonomy
- Date:January 2008
- Copyright © 2012 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
- Retrieved 2012-01-02
- ↑ Kyle D.Lubson ,Robert.Corruccini - Southern Illinois University
- Journal of Contemporary Anthropology 2011
- Copyright © Kyle D.Lubson and Robert.Corruccini
- Retrieved 2012-01-02
- ↑ W.W. HOWELLS
- Société d'anthropologie de Paris, Centre de recherches anthropologiques
- page 333 of Bulletins et mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris
- Doin, 1982
- Retrieved 2012-01-02
- (originally from a holding of the University of California [+google.co.uk])
- ↑ A.Buzhilova. M.Kovlovskaya. M.Mednikova
- Lab. of Physical Anthropology of RAS, Moscow
- contacts :e-mail: albu_pa@mail.ru / mk_pa@mail.ru / medma_pa@mail.ru
- The Sunghir Archaeological site
- Retrieved 2012-01-02