Hominid fossil sample from Kanjera, Kenya
Description, provenance, and implications of new and earlier discoveries
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8321317 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Thomas W Plummer (0000-0003-4804-1285, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Thomas Plummer, R Potts (0000-0001-6008-0100, National Museum of Natural History) |
| Year | 1995 |
| Volume | 96 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-23 |
| Publication date | 1995-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Physical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-9483 • E-ISSN: 1096-8644 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajpa.1330960103 |
| PMID | 7726297 |
| OpenAlex | W2019060710 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 22 |
Anatomically modern hominids were first collected from Kanjera, Kenya, by L.S.B. Leakey in the 1930s. Their apparent association with an archaic fauna was quickly challenged, throwing their age into doubt. Further unpublished hominid fragments were collected in 1974, 1975, 1981, and 1987. We review the context and morphology of the entire hominid sample. A minimum number of five individuals is represented by both cranial and postcranial elements. Several individuals have thickened cranial vaults, a characteristic originally thought to reflect their great antiquity. Vault thickening resulted from diploic expansion and may have been a response to acquired or inherited anemia. The entire hominid sample postdates the Kanjera Formation, deposited from the early into the middle Pleistocene. Most of the sample was derived from the black cotton soil capping the stratigraphic column. The morphology and context of the Kanjera hominids is consistent with human skeletal remains from nearby Holocene sites. Hominid 3 was probably an intrusive burial into an early Pleistocene bed. © 1995 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Cranial vault · Early Pleistocene · Geography · Holocene · Middle Stone Age · Paleoanthropology · Pleistocene · Postcrania · Provenance · Skull · Taxon · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Primate Behavior and Ecology
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| Citations per year | 0.23 |
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| Citation span | 1995 - 2011 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |