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DOI	10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.11.023
	Distinct among Neanderthals: The scapula of the skeleton from Altamura; Italy
	Di Vincenzo F.; Churchill S.E.; Buzi C.; Profico A.; Tafuri M.A.; Micheli M.; Caramelli D.; Manzi G.
发表日期	2019
ISSN	0277-3791
起始页码	76
结束页码	88
卷号	217
英文摘要	The exceptionally well-preserved Neanderthal skeleton discovered in October 1993 within the Lamalunga cave near Altamura (Puglia, Italy) has been recently dated to a late Middle Pleistocene chronology, bracketed between 128.2 and 187.0 ka. Although the skeleton is still sealed in situ, in 2009 and 2015 a large part of its fragmentary right scapula was removed from the cave in three pieces, following a protocol aimed at preventing any biological contamination prior to aDNA extraction and analysis. The three fragments taken together preserve the glenoid fossa, the roots of both the coracoid and acromial processes, the superior two-thirds of the axillary border, portions of the spine, and part of the supraspinous fossa. This scapula is described here in detail for the first time. Morphological analyses show that it falls within the range of Neanderthal variability and also approaches the Mid-Pleistocene sample from Atapuerca Sima de los Huesos. However, the scapula from Altamura exhibits a bisulcate/ventral pattern of the axillary border: a feature that is uncommon for a Neanderthal and, more in general, among the European archaic humans of the Middle and Late Pleistocene. The scapula from Altamura expands our knowledge of the postcranial variability along the Neanderthal lineage. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd
英文关键词	Axillary border; Europe; Human evolution; Pleistocene; Shoulder
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Caves; Shoulders (road); Axillary border; Biological contamination; Europe; Human evolution; Late Pleistocene; Middle Pleistocene; Morphological analysis; Pleistocene; Musculoskeletal system; biochronology; functional morphology; human evolution; Neanderthal; Pleistocene; skeleton; Altamura; Bari [Puglia]; Italy; Puglia
来源期刊	Quaternary Science Reviews
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/151880
作者单位	Dipartimento di Biologia Ambientale, Sapienza Università di Roma, Roma, Italy; Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana, Anagni (Frosinone), Italy; Evolutionary Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, United States; Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università di Roma Tre, Roma, Italy; Dipartimento di Biologia, Università di Firenze, Firenze, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Di Vincenzo F.,Churchill S.E.,Buzi C.,et al. Distinct among Neanderthals: The scapula of the skeleton from Altamura; Italy[J],2019,217.
APA	Di Vincenzo F..,Churchill S.E..,Buzi C..,Profico A..,Tafuri M.A..,...&Manzi G..(2019).Distinct among Neanderthals: The scapula of the skeleton from Altamura; Italy.Quaternary Science Reviews,217.
MLA	Di Vincenzo F.,et al."Distinct among Neanderthals: The scapula of the skeleton from Altamura; Italy".Quaternary Science Reviews 217(2019).