Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia.

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dc.contributor.authorBerger, L.R.
dc.contributor.authorDe Klerk, B.
dc.contributor.authorQuinn, R.L.
dc.contributor.authorChurchill, S.E.
dc.date.accessioned2016-09-12T13:37:21Z
dc.date.available2016-09-12T13:37:21Z
dc.date.issued2008-03-12
dc.description.abstractNewly discovered fossil assemblages of small bodied Homo sapiens from Palau, Micronesia possess characters thought to be taxonomically primitive for the genus Homo. Background: Recent surface collection and test excavation in limestone caves in the the rock islands of Palau, Micronesia, has produced a sizeable sample of human skeletal remains dating roughly between 940-2890 cal ybp. Principle Findings: Preliminary analysis indicates that this material is important for two reasons. First, Individuals from the older time horizons are small in body size even relative to "pygmoid" populations from Southeast Asia and Indonesia, and thus may represent a marked case of human insular dwarfism. Second, while possessing a number of derived features that align them with Homo sapiens, the human remains from Palau also exhibit several skeletal traits that are considered to be primitive for the genus Homo. Significance. These features may be previously unrecognized developmental correlates of small body size and, if soo, they may have important implications for interpreting the taxonomic affinities of fossil specimens of Homo.en_ZA
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Geographic Society Missions Programme and University of the Witwatersrand and BHP Billiton.en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBerger, L.R. et al. 2008. Small-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia. PLoS ONE 3(3): e1780.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn1932-6203
dc.identifier.otherDOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001780
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10539/21016
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherPublic Library of Scienceen_ZA
dc.subjectage determinationen_ZA
dc.subjectanthropologyen_ZA
dc.subjectanthropometric parametersen_ZA
dc.subjectarticleen_ZA
dc.subjectbody sizeen_ZA
dc.subjectbone ageen_ZA
dc.subjectbrain sizeen_ZA
dc.subjectcontrolled studyen_ZA
dc.subjectcraniofacial morphologyen_ZA
dc.subjectdwarfismen_ZA
dc.subjectFederated States of Micronesiaen_ZA
dc.subjectfossil humanen_ZA
dc.subjecthumanen_ZA
dc.subjecthuman tissueen_ZA
dc.subjectIndonesiaen_ZA
dc.subjectpaleontologyen_ZA
dc.subjectphysical developmenten_ZA
dc.subjectskeletonen_ZA
dc.subjectSoutheast Asiaen_ZA
dc.subjecttaxonomyen_ZA
dc.subjectanthropometryen_ZA
dc.subjectcomparative studyen_ZA
dc.subjectfemaleen_ZA
dc.subjectfossilen_ZA
dc.subjectgeographyen_ZA
dc.subjectmaleen_ZA
dc.titleSmall-bodied humans from Palau, Micronesia.en_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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