Histomorphometric age assessment of the Boxgrove 1 tibial diaphysis

Histomorphometric analysis of a medial midshaft chip from the Middle Pleistocene (ca.500ka BP) hominid tibia from Boxgrove, U.K. provides a modal age-at-death estimate at the end of the fourth decade of life. This makes Boxgrove 1 one of the older known and systematically aged Middle Pleistocene hom...

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Published in:Journal of human evolution 2001-04, Vol.40 (4), p.331-338
Main Authors: Streeter, Margaret, Stout, Sam D., Trinkaus, Erik, Stringer, Chris B., Roberts, Mark B., Parfitt, Simon A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Age Determination by Skeleton - methods
Age Determination by Skeleton - veterinary
Animals
Diaphyses - anatomy & histology
Fossils
Hominidae - anatomy & histology
Homo
Human paleontology
human paleontology, hominids, histomorphometry, age-at-death
Humans
Methodology and general studies
Prehistory and protohistory
Tibia - anatomy & histology
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Summary:Histomorphometric analysis of a medial midshaft chip from the Middle Pleistocene (ca.500ka BP) hominid tibia from Boxgrove, U.K. provides a modal age-at-death estimate at the end of the fourth decade of life. This makes Boxgrove 1 one of the older known and systematically aged Middle Pleistocene hominid specimens, and it reinforces the pattern of an underrepresentation of older adults observed in Middle and Late Pleistocene archaic Homo samples.
ISSN:0047-2484
1095-8606
DOI:10.1006/jhev.2001.0460