Olduvai Gorge
Olduvai Gorge
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GBPOn 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.
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June 2009Paperback
9780521105194
328 pages
280 × 210 × 17 mm
0.74kg
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Table of Contents
- 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.
