The Regourdou 1 Neandertal body size

Bilateral asymmetry of the humerus in Neandertals, Australian aborigines and medieval humans

“…Nevertheless, Tabun 1 was taken into account in our research due to its very well‐preserved left and right humeri. Regourdou 1, one of the oldest Neandertal skeletons from Western Europe, dated between 75,000 and 65,000 BP (Volpato et al, ; Wolpoff, ), was discovered in 1957 in a rock shelter near Lascaux in south‐western France (Plavcan et al, ; Vandermeersch and Trinkaus, ). La Ferrassie 1, discovered by Louis Capitan and Denis Peyrony in 1909 in a rock shelter in France, is one of the most complete Neandertal skeletons.…”

Newly discovered Neanderthal remains from Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan, and their attribution to Shanidar 5

“…Body mass estimates from talar measurements following and Will and Stock (2015) were overall less consistent with published estimates for Shanidar 5 and Neanderthals more generally. Only one of the Will and Stock (2015) equations, again using length of the talar head (M9), gave a femoral head diameter comparable with the actual measurement of the Shanidar 5 femoral head (47.5 mm vs. 47.5 mm;: Trinkaus, 1983b) which produced a body mass estimate of 70.6 kg (Plavcan et al, 2014). Estimated body mass based on our estimated femoral head measurement is identical to that of Plavcan et al (2014), since the same method was used to estimate body mass from femoral head diameter in both.…”

“…Finally, stature estimated from talus length using Pablos et al (2013a) and stature and body mass estimated from talar head length (but not other talar measurements) using Will and Stock (2015), are highly consistent with those previously published for Shanidar 5. However, estimates based on other talar measurements using equations from and Will and Stock (2015) appear to significantly underestimate stature and body mass in this individual compared with estimates derived from more standard techniques (Trinkaus, 1983b;Plavcan et al, 2014). This may relate to small sample size in the reference samples, and/or the fact they are comprised of recent individuals of H. sapiens who differ in skeletal proportions from Neanderthals.…”

Dentine morphology of Atapuerca‐Sima de los Huesos lower molars: Evolutionary implications through three‐dimensional geometric morphometric analysis

“…Since the fossils of both Sima de los Huesos and Krapina are assumed to constitute a single biological population, these hominin samples are considered ideal to investigate the intra‐population variation. Additional Neanderthal specimens from Gibraltar (Stringer et al, ; Finlayson et al, ), Engis (Schmerling, ; Fraipont, ), Ehringsdorf (Weidenreich, ; Behm‐Blancke, ; Steiner & Steiner, ; Steiner, ), Abri Bourgeois‐Delaunay (Condemi, ; Macchiarelli et al, ), Abri Suard (David, ; Debénath, ; Teilhol, ), Roc de Marsal (Bordes & Lafille, ; Turq, ; Madre‐Dupouy, ; Tillier, ), and Regourdou (Vandermeersch & Trinkaus, ; Maureille, Rougier, Houët, & Vandermeersch, ; Plavcan et al, ) were included to examine the morphological shape variation in a wider context.…”