The Human Fossil Record. Volume 2 Craniodental Morphology of Genus Homo (Africa and Asia)

OLDUVAI GORGE LOCATION A 30-km-long dry canyon in the Serengeti Plains of northern Tanzania, centered at some 160 km NW of Arush ...

(including the OH 28 innominate bone) that have been attributed to Homo erectus (M. Leakey, 1971a). Above Bed IV lie the Masek ( ...

196 AFRICA occipital piece, parts of L and R temporal, an incomplete maxilla and mandible with teeth, and an isolated upper prem ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 197 Upper Dentition. An isolated LP1 matches RP1 in maxilla. Both Pls subsquare teeth with rounded lingual corners ...

198 AFRICA hominid). Teeth identified as Ldm2 and dm’ not primate. Another set of upper teeth identified as from R side (partial ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 199 depression for the superior sagittal sinus (which one would expect to find near bregma). Internally, a groove ...

200 A F R I c A so on M2. Ml and 2 about subequally broad b/l, but M1 shorter m/d. OH 12. Small partial calvaria, in fragments. ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 201 grooved internal surfaces. Apices of protoconid and metaconid lie essentially opposite each other; base of lat ...

202 AFRICA suture; suture not raised on either side. Carotid foramina relatively large, point down; closely approxi- mated jugul ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 203 alveoli, I roots appear to have been large, as are roots of other teeth. OH 16 Morph (includes OH 24) OH 16. F ...

204 AFRICA behind protocone (thus distal moiety of tooth is short, somewhat rounded, as in M3s). Teeth in positions of M3s may n ...

OLDIJVAI GORGE 205 smaller L orbit is more ovoid. Distinct, medially placed supraorbital notch above each orbit. On the R, at le ...

206 A F R I c A trace of superior petrous sinus visible. On both sides, subarcuate fossa is closed off. On the R is sub-subarcu- ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 207 As apparently properly reconstructed on the R, lateral margin of nasal aperture is rounded, somewhat columnar, ...

208 AFRICA talonid basin large, trigonid basin longer. Groove on buccal side delineates mesial pillar. In buccal outline, P1 mes ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 209 Leakey, M. 1971b. Olduvai Gorge, vol. 3. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press. Rightmire, G. 1990. Tbe Evolut ...

210 OLDUVAI GORGE Figure 1. OH 6 (scale = 1 cm). ...

OLDUVAI GORGE 211 OLDUVAI GORGE Figure 2. OH 7: large composite parietal (this page); smaller composite parietal (next page-left ...

212 AFRICA OLDUVAI GORGE Figure 2 (Continued) ...

OLDUVAI GORGE OLDUVAI GORGE Figure 3. OH 7 (scale = 1 cm). 213 ...