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T1 Exploring the morphology of adult tibia and fibula from Sima de los Huesos site in sierra de Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain
A1 Rodríguez, Laura
A1 García González, Rebeca
A1 Arsuaga, Juan Luis
A1 Carretero Díaz, José Miguel
K1 Activity
K1 Fibula
K1 Sima de los Huesos
K1 Tibia
K1 Paleontología
K1 Paleontology
AB The analysis of the locomotor anatomy of Late Pleistocene Homo has largely focused on changes in proximal femur and pelvic morphologies, with much attention centered on the emergence of modern humans. Although much of the focus has been on changes in the proximal femur, some research has also been conducted on tibiae and, to a lesser extent, fibulae. With this in mind, we present one of the largest samples of the same population of human tibiae and fibulae from the Middle Pleistocene to determine their main characteristic traits and establish similarities and differences, primarily with those of Neanderthals and modern humans, but also with other Middle Pleistocene specimens in the fossil record. Through this study, we established that the Middle Pleistocene population from the Sima de los Huesos (Atapuerca, Burgos, Spain) had lower leg long bones similar to those of Neanderthals, although there were some important differences, such as bone length, which this fossil individuals resembled those of modern humans and not to Neanderthals. This fact is related to the crural index and leg length, even though we do not have any true association between femora and tibiae yet, it has implications for establishing locomotor efficiency and climate adaptation.
PB Wiley
SN 1932-8486
YR 2023
FD 2023-10-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9328
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10259/9328
LA eng
NO Grant PID2021-122355NB-C31 funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 and “ERDF A way of making Europe”, Fieldwork at the Atapuerca sites is funded by the Junta de Castilla y León and the Fundación Atapuerca.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos
RD 22-dic-2024