Original scientific paper

The Krapina Occipital Bones

RACHEL CASPARI ; Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University, Mt. Pleasant, Michigan 48859

Abstract

The Krapina fossils are the largest collection of Neandertals known, representing a unique opportunity to examine Neandertal variation at a single place and time. Because of the nature of the assemblage, knowledge about the collection as a whole must be obtained from the analyses of the individual skeletal elements. In this work I present a summary of a subset of the Krapina fragments, the occipital remains. I review their variation and briefly discuss them in the context of Neandertal posterior cranial vault anatomy.

Keywords

Krapina; Occipital bone; posterior cranial vault anatomy

Hrčak ID:

83105

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/83105

Publication date:

31.10.2006.

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