Lynne A Schepartz
Biographic Data
| ID | 77290 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lynne A Schepartz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lynne A |
| FAMILY NAME | Schepartz |
| SIGNATURE | SCHEPARTZ L A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1379-0817 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 490 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Association between parity and tooth loss among northern Nigerian Hausa women
BACKGROUND: Female reproduction is associated with physiological, metabolic, and nutritional demands that can negatively affect health and are possibly cumulative when parity is high. While it is probable that maternal oral health is similarly affected, available evidence is based on fairly low parity populations and likely confounders affecting oral health status were not considered. AIM: To determine the relationship between parity and tooth lo…
Does nutrition have an effect on the timing of tooth formation
BACKGROUND: The effect of nutritional status on the timing of permanent tooth formation is not well understood, despite clear evidence that systemic stresses result in enamel defects during tooth formation. AIM: This study investigated the effect of nutritional status (measured as BMI, height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and head circumference) on permanent tooth formation. METHOD: This was a prospective cross-sectional study involving 6…
A broader perspective on estimating dental age for the Xujiayao juvenile, a late Middle Pleistocene archaic hominin from East Asia
The Wits Atlas
Current dental maturity charts, such as the widely applied London atlas, do not take into consideration advanced tooth emergence and formation patterns observed in children of African ancestry. The result is inaccurate age estimation in Southern Africa, a region where there is great forensic and anthropological need for reliable age estimation. OBJECTIVES: To develop a population-specific atlas of permanent tooth emergence and formation for age e…
Permanent tooth emergence
Objectives This study investigates mean age, sequence, and temporal trends of permanent tooth emergence in Black Southern African children and compares the findings with other population samples. Materials and methods This community‐based cross‐sectional study involved 639 Black Southern African children between 5 and 20 years of age. Probit analysis was used to derive the mean age at emergence of the permanent teeth. Sex and cross‐population com…
Comparing methods for estimating cranial capacity in incomplete human fossils using the Jingchuan 1 partial cranium as an example
Infectious disease in the ancient Aegean
Third molar impaction and agenesis
Background Third molar influence on anterior crowding is controversial, but they are assumed to play a major role in compromising dental arch space. Aim To evaluate the relationship among impaction, agenesis and crowding in black South African males. Subjects and method Mandibles and maxillae of 535 black South African males in the Raymond A. Dart Collection of Human Skeletons, University of the Witwatersrand were examined for anterior crowding a…
Mother City and Colony
This study uses bioarchaeological methods and interpretive frameworks, in conjunction with archaeological and textual evidence, to document and interpret the record of Greek colonial interactions between Corinth and local populations at Apollonia, Albania, in the region known as Illyria (modern Albania). A series of Illyrian human remains (n = 304; Early Iron Age-Hellenistic periods) and Corinthian human remains (n = 72; Neolithic-Hellenistic per…
Femoral subtrochanteric shape variation in Albania
Evidence for long‐term migration on the Balkan Peninsula using dental and cranial nonmetric data
This article seeks to identify “Greeks” and “non‐Greeks” in “mixed” mortuary contexts in a Greek colony. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that Illyrian and Greek individuals lived and were buried together at the Corinthian colony of Apollonia, Albania (established ca. 600 BC). The pattern of human biological interaction at Apollonia is tested by identifying variation in genetic relatedness using biodistance analysis of dental and cranial nonm…
Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China
A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China
A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Tangshan, Nanjing is described and compared with a broad sample of endocasts of H. erectus , Neanderthals, and recent modern humans. The Nanjing 1 endocast is reconstructed based on two portions of endocranial casts taken from the original fossil fragments. The fossil was discovered in 1993, near Nanjing, South China and is dated to ∼ 0.58–0.62 Ma. The cranial capacity is ∼ 876 cc, as determine…
Large mammal exploitation in Late Middle Pleistocene China
This paper examines how studies of faunal assemblages from a hominin cave site, in conjunction with ecological data on extant taxa and comparisons with palaeontological localities and other hominin sites, can take our understanding from basic presence/absence lists to investigations of species-specific utilisation. The Rhinoceros sinensis and Stegodon orientalis components of the fauna from Panxian Dadong, a late Middle Pleistocene cave in the mo…
Taphonomy, life history, and human exploitation of Rhinoceros sinensis at the Middle Pleistocene site of Panxian Dadong, Guizhou, China
Rhinoceros remains are commonly found in Chinese Pleistocene archaeological localities. This study examines the characteristics of the Rhinoceros sinensis sample from Panxian Dadong, a karst cave in the mountains of western Guizhou province, with a mammalian fauna in association with stone artefacts and human remains from the late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 6-8). The distribution of skeletal elements shows a predominance of foot (metapodial and phal…
Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts
Endocranial cast of HexianHomo erectus from South China
In this paper, we present data on the morphological features and linear measurements for the Hexian Homo erectus and other comparative endocasts, in order to highlight variation during human brain evolution. The endocast of Hexian was reconstructed in 1982, and an endocranial volume of 1,025 ml was estimated. The geological age is about 412 ka, or roughly contemporaneous with the Zhoukoudian (ZKD) specimens. There are some differences between Hex…
Traces of Ancestry
Traces of Ancestry: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Martin Jones, ed. Oakville: David Brown Book Company, 2004. 161 pp
Reflections of our past. How human history is revealed in our genes
Coupled electron spin resonance (ESR)/uranium-series dating of mammalian tooth enamel at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, China
Stegodon orientalis from Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site in Guizhou, South China
A Conversation with Huang Weiwen
A Conversation with Huang Weiwen:Reflections on Asian Paleolithic Research Sari Miller-Antonio and Lynne A. Schepartz Huang Weiwen is professor of Paleolithic Archaeology at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Academia Sinica, Beijing. He was born in 1937 in Guangdong Province, China. As an early student of the preeminent archaeologist Jia Lanpo, Huang was one of the first to be trained specifically in Paleolith…
Lithic Raw Material Use at the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Panxian Dadong
The possibility of selective use of lithic raw material in the Middle Pleistocene cave deposits of Panxian Dadong is examined in order to evaluate hominid strategies of resource management. Limestone, chert, and basalt, available in or nearby the cave, were differentially used for the production of tools and unretouched flakes. Limestone was predominantly used to produce expedient tools, unretouched flakes were most commonly made of basalt, and c…
Taxonomic Abundance at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene Cave in South China
The faunal assemblage from the site of Panxian Dadong provides evidence for a general continuity in species representation throughout a period of approximately 120 kya. Taxonomically, faunal material from Dadong includes classic taxa of the Middle Pleistocene Ailuropoda-Stegodon faunal complex of South China. Taxonomic abundance measures document a sample that is rich in large ungulate species including rhinoceros, stegodonts, and large bovids. T…
The body of power, the body of memory
Bioarchaeology is a relatively new and dynamic area of anthropological research, having grown out of the New Archaeology’s emphasis on understanding formation processes within a broader ant
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still far from completed, an overview of the current stage of the investigations includes (1) a synthesis of the site's complex stratigraphy and dating; (2) a description of the spatial patterning of hearths, ash lenses, and bone and …
Late Middle Pleistocene hominin teeth from Panxian Dadong, South China
Endocranial cast of HexianHomo erectus from South China
In this paper, we present data on the morphological features and linear measurements for the Hexian Homo erectus and other comparative endocasts, in order to highlight variation during human brain evolution. The endocast of Hexian was reconstructed in 1982, and an endocranial volume of 1,025 ml was estimated. The geological age is about 412 ka, or roughly contemporaneous with the Zhoukoudian (ZKD) specimens. There are some differences between Hex…
A reappraisal of the anatomical basis for speech in Middle Palaeolithic hominids
The recovery of a fossil hominid skeleton with a complete hyoid bone from Mousterian deposits in Kebara Cave, Israel, provides new evidence pertaining to the evolution of speech. Previous studies of speech in the Middle Palaeolithic (most notably those on Neandertals) have focused on the basicranium as an indicator of speech capabilities. This work critiques the use of the basicranium and instead presents the anatomical relations of the hyoid and…
Lithic Raw Material Use at the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Panxian Dadong
The possibility of selective use of lithic raw material in the Middle Pleistocene cave deposits of Panxian Dadong is examined in order to evaluate hominid strategies of resource management. Limestone, chert, and basalt, available in or nearby the cave, were differentially used for the production of tools and unretouched flakes. Limestone was predominantly used to produce expedient tools, unretouched flakes were most commonly made of basalt, and c…
Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts
Coupled electron spin resonance (ESR)/uranium-series dating of mammalian tooth enamel at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, China
Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China
Upland resources and the early Palaeolithic occupation of Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma
The southwestern Chinese provinces and neighbouring upland areas in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam form a geographical region with an expanding Palaeolithic record. The area was a gateway for the dispersion of populations into East Asia and Island Southeast Asia. It is therefore important to examine the diversity of environments and resources that the earliest inhabitants encountered, and to identify adaptations and technologies that may have …
Raw material selection and evidence for rhinoceros tooth tools at Dadong Cave, southern China
Research in Dadong Cave, southern China, has revealed evidence suggesting that nonlithic materials were used in the tool kits of the Chinese Lower Palaeolithic
Taxonomic Abundance at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene Cave in South China
The faunal assemblage from the site of Panxian Dadong provides evidence for a general continuity in species representation throughout a period of approximately 120 kya. Taxonomically, faunal material from Dadong includes classic taxa of the Middle Pleistocene Ailuropoda-Stegodon faunal complex of South China. Taxonomic abundance measures document a sample that is rich in large ungulate species including rhinoceros, stegodonts, and large bovids. T…
Evidence for long‐term migration on the Balkan Peninsula using dental and cranial nonmetric data
This article seeks to identify “Greeks” and “non‐Greeks” in “mixed” mortuary contexts in a Greek colony. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that Illyrian and Greek individuals lived and were buried together at the Corinthian colony of Apollonia, Albania (established ca. 600 BC). The pattern of human biological interaction at Apollonia is tested by identifying variation in genetic relatedness using biodistance analysis of dental and cranial nonm…
Stegodon orientalis from Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site in Guizhou, South China
Who were the latter Pleistocene eastern Africans
Infectious disease in the ancient Aegean
Language and modern human origins
The evolution of anatomically modern humans is frequently linked to the development of complex, symbolically based language. Language, functioning as a system of cognition and communication, is suggested to be the key behavior in later human evolution that isolated modern humans from their ancestors. Alternatively, other researchers view complex language as a much earlier hominid capacity, unrelated to the origin of anatomically modern Homo sapie…
Demography and Human Origins
A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Nanjing, China
A new brain endocast of Homo erectus from Hulu Cave, Tangshan, Nanjing is described and compared with a broad sample of endocasts of H. erectus , Neanderthals, and recent modern humans. The Nanjing 1 endocast is reconstructed based on two portions of endocranial casts taken from the original fossil fragments. The fossil was discovered in 1993, near Nanjing, South China and is dated to ∼ 0.58–0.62 Ma. The cranial capacity is ∼ 876 cc, as determine…
Taphonomy, life history, and human exploitation of Rhinoceros sinensis at the Middle Pleistocene site of Panxian Dadong, Guizhou, China
Rhinoceros remains are commonly found in Chinese Pleistocene archaeological localities. This study examines the characteristics of the Rhinoceros sinensis sample from Panxian Dadong, a karst cave in the mountains of western Guizhou province, with a mammalian fauna in association with stone artefacts and human remains from the late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 6-8). The distribution of skeletal elements shows a predominance of foot (metapodial and phal…
Mother City and Colony
This study uses bioarchaeological methods and interpretive frameworks, in conjunction with archaeological and textual evidence, to document and interpret the record of Greek colonial interactions between Corinth and local populations at Apollonia, Albania, in the region known as Illyria (modern Albania). A series of Illyrian human remains (n = 304; Early Iron Age-Hellenistic periods) and Corinthian human remains (n = 72; Neolithic-Hellenistic per…
Panxian Dadong, South China
Broad-based reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Asian environment are valuable sources of information that can augment our understanding of prehistoric human adaptations and expansion into East Asia. The sediments, speleothems, and geochronology of Panxian Dadong Cave serve as an example of the possible integration of this broader paleoenvironmental information with more fine-grained archaeological data. The current U-series and ESR dating …
Large mammal exploitation in Late Middle Pleistocene China
This paper examines how studies of faunal assemblages from a hominin cave site, in conjunction with ecological data on extant taxa and comparisons with palaeontological localities and other hominin sites, can take our understanding from basic presence/absence lists to investigations of species-specific utilisation. The Rhinoceros sinensis and Stegodon orientalis components of the fauna from Panxian Dadong, a late Middle Pleistocene cave in the mo…
Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective
Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective Lynne A. Schepartz and Sari Miller-Antonio Differences among the Asian, African, and European prehistoric records are well documented by assemblages that illustrate technological variability and diverse subsistence strategies. Until recently these differences were interpreted without detailed knowledge of Asian paleoenvironments. In addition, early Pleistocene hominid expansions from Africa in…
The Wits Atlas
Current dental maturity charts, such as the widely applied London atlas, do not take into consideration advanced tooth emergence and formation patterns observed in children of African ancestry. The result is inaccurate age estimation in Southern Africa, a region where there is great forensic and anthropological need for reliable age estimation. OBJECTIVES: To develop a population-specific atlas of permanent tooth emergence and formation for age e…
Does nutrition have an effect on the timing of tooth formation
BACKGROUND: The effect of nutritional status on the timing of permanent tooth formation is not well understood, despite clear evidence that systemic stresses result in enamel defects during tooth formation. AIM: This study investigated the effect of nutritional status (measured as BMI, height, weight, mid-upper arm circumference, and head circumference) on permanent tooth formation. METHOD: This was a prospective cross-sectional study involving 6…
Demography and Human Origins
Abstracts — Second Symposium on Upper Paleolithic
Who were the latter Pleistocene eastern Africans
A Middle Palaeolithic human hyoid bone
A reappraisal of the anatomical basis for speech in Middle Palaeolithic hominids
The recovery of a fossil hominid skeleton with a complete hyoid bone from Mousterian deposits in Kebara Cave, Israel, provides new evidence pertaining to the evolution of speech. Previous studies of speech in the Middle Palaeolithic (most notably those on Neandertals) have focused on the basicranium as an indicator of speech capabilities. This work critiques the use of the basicranium and instead presents the anatomical relations of the hyoid and…
The Excavations in Kebara Cave, Mt. Carmel [and Comments and Replies]
This paper summarizes the results of recent excavations (1982-90) at the Middle Paleolithic site of Kebara Cave. Work at the cave by earlier excavators is also discussed. Although analysis of the Kebara materials is still far from completed, an overview of the current stage of the investigations includes (1) a synthesis of the site's complex stratigraphy and dating; (2) a description of the spatial patterning of hearths, ash lenses, and bone and …
Language and modern human origins
The evolution of anatomically modern humans is frequently linked to the development of complex, symbolically based language. Language, functioning as a system of cognition and communication, is suggested to be the key behavior in later human evolution that isolated modern humans from their ancestors. Alternatively, other researchers view complex language as a much earlier hominid capacity, unrelated to the origin of anatomically modern Homo sapie…
Excavations at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, Southern China
Upland resources and the early Palaeolithic occupation of Southern China, Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Burma
The southwestern Chinese provinces and neighbouring upland areas in Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam form a geographical region with an expanding Palaeolithic record. The area was a gateway for the dispersion of populations into East Asia and Island Southeast Asia. It is therefore important to examine the diversity of environments and resources that the earliest inhabitants encountered, and to identify adaptations and technologies that may have …
Raw material selection and evidence for rhinoceros tooth tools at Dadong Cave, southern China
Research in Dadong Cave, southern China, has revealed evidence suggesting that nonlithic materials were used in the tool kits of the Chinese Lower Palaeolithic
God-Apes and Fossil Men
Reviewed by: God-Apes and Fossil Men. Paleoanthropology in South Asia Lynne A. Schepartz God-Apes and Fossil Men. Paleoanthropology in South Asia. Kenneth A. R. Kennedy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000. 480 pp.; figures, maps, references, indices. Every paleoanthropologist worth their tenured position knows the intricacies of the archaeological and fossil records for Africa, Europe, Southwest Asia, and China. Yet [End Page 311] how …
New Directions in Paleolithic Archaeology
Reflections of our past. How human history is revealed in our genes
Coupled electron spin resonance (ESR)/uranium-series dating of mammalian tooth enamel at Panxian Dadong, Guizhou Province, China
Stegodon orientalis from Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene archaeological site in Guizhou, South China
A Conversation with Huang Weiwen
A Conversation with Huang Weiwen:Reflections on Asian Paleolithic Research Sari Miller-Antonio and Lynne A. Schepartz Huang Weiwen is professor of Paleolithic Archaeology at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Academia Sinica, Beijing. He was born in 1937 in Guangdong Province, China. As an early student of the preeminent archaeologist Jia Lanpo, Huang was one of the first to be trained specifically in Paleolith…
Lithic Raw Material Use at the Late Middle Pleistocene Site of Panxian Dadong
The possibility of selective use of lithic raw material in the Middle Pleistocene cave deposits of Panxian Dadong is examined in order to evaluate hominid strategies of resource management. Limestone, chert, and basalt, available in or nearby the cave, were differentially used for the production of tools and unretouched flakes. Limestone was predominantly used to produce expedient tools, unretouched flakes were most commonly made of basalt, and c…
Taxonomic Abundance at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene Cave in South China
The faunal assemblage from the site of Panxian Dadong provides evidence for a general continuity in species representation throughout a period of approximately 120 kya. Taxonomically, faunal material from Dadong includes classic taxa of the Middle Pleistocene Ailuropoda-Stegodon faunal complex of South China. Taxonomic abundance measures document a sample that is rich in large ungulate species including rhinoceros, stegodonts, and large bovids. T…
Panxian Dadong, South China
Broad-based reconstructions of the Middle Pleistocene Asian environment are valuable sources of information that can augment our understanding of prehistoric human adaptations and expansion into East Asia. The sediments, speleothems, and geochronology of Panxian Dadong Cave serve as an example of the possible integration of this broader paleoenvironmental information with more fine-grained archaeological data. The current U-series and ESR dating …
Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective
Asia and the Middle Pleistocene in Global Perspective Lynne A. Schepartz and Sari Miller-Antonio Differences among the Asian, African, and European prehistoric records are well documented by assemblages that illustrate technological variability and diverse subsistence strategies. Until recently these differences were interpreted without detailed knowledge of Asian paleoenvironments. In addition, early Pleistocene hominid expansions from Africa in…
Endocranial cast of HexianHomo erectus from South China
In this paper, we present data on the morphological features and linear measurements for the Hexian Homo erectus and other comparative endocasts, in order to highlight variation during human brain evolution. The endocast of Hexian was reconstructed in 1982, and an endocranial volume of 1,025 ml was estimated. The geological age is about 412 ka, or roughly contemporaneous with the Zhoukoudian (ZKD) specimens. There are some differences between Hex…
Traces of Ancestry
Traces of Ancestry: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew. Martin Jones, ed. Oakville: David Brown Book Company, 2004. 161 pp
Morphological and morphometric analysis of variation in the Zhoukoudian Homo erectus brain endocasts
Large mammal exploitation in Late Middle Pleistocene China
This paper examines how studies of faunal assemblages from a hominin cave site, in conjunction with ecological data on extant taxa and comparisons with palaeontological localities and other hominin sites, can take our understanding from basic presence/absence lists to investigations of species-specific utilisation. The Rhinoceros sinensis and Stegodon orientalis components of the fauna from Panxian Dadong, a late Middle Pleistocene cave in the mo…
Taphonomy, life history, and human exploitation of Rhinoceros sinensis at the Middle Pleistocene site of Panxian Dadong, Guizhou, China
Rhinoceros remains are commonly found in Chinese Pleistocene archaeological localities. This study examines the characteristics of the Rhinoceros sinensis sample from Panxian Dadong, a karst cave in the mountains of western Guizhou province, with a mammalian fauna in association with stone artefacts and human remains from the late Middle Pleistocene (MIS 6-8). The distribution of skeletal elements shows a predominance of foot (metapodial and phal…
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