Olduvai Gorge

P. V. Tobias (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10519-4 (ISBN)

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On 15 August 1959 Dr L. S. B. Leakey announced the discovery, in the lowest level of Olduvai Gorge, of a new and beautifully preserved fossil cranium of a hominid, which he tentatively named Zinjanthropus boisei. For this second volume, Professor Tobias has undertaken a definitive analysis of the cranium. This is a most comprehensive study to be made on a hominid skull belonging to the early and mid-Pleistocene group of australopithecines. The fossilised skull provides a wealth of information on taxonomic status, way of life and age at death. To evaluate Zinjanthropus fully, the author has reviewed in detail the cranial and dental anatomy of all australopithecines from Tanzania and South Africa and has placed on record much valuable information about the group as a whole.

List of text figures; List of plates; List of tables; Introductory note; Foreword Sir W. E. Le Gros Clark, F.R.S; Editor's notes; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Preservation and reconstruction of the cranium; 3. The cranial vault; 4. The basis cranii externa; 5. Certain critical angles and indices of the cranium; 6. The interior of the calvaria; 7. The thickness of cranial bones; 8. The endocranial cast of Zinjanthropus; 9. Metrical characters of the calvaria as a whole; 10. The structure of the face; 11. The pneumatisation of the Zinjanthropus cranium; 12. The dental arcade and the palate; 13. The pattern of dental attrition and occlusion, with comments on enamel hypolasia; 14. The size of individual teeth, absolute and relative; 15. The size of the dentition as a whole; 16. The crown shape index of the teeth; 17. The morphology of the teeth; 18. Summary of cranial and dental features of Zinjanthropus; 19. The taxonomic status of Zinjanthropus and of the australopithecines in general; 20. The cultural and phylogenetic status of Australopithecus boisei and of the australopithecines in general; References; Indexes.

Reihe/Serie	Olduvai Gorge 5 Volume Paperback Set ; Volume 2
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	210 x 280 mm
Gewicht	740 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Mineralogie / Paläontologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-521-10519-6 / 0521105196
ISBN-13	978-0-521-10519-4 / 9780521105194
Zustand	Neuware