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The discovery of an early Upper Paleolithic human burial at the Abrigo
do Lagar Velho, Portugal, has provided evidence of early modern humans
from southern Iberia. The remains, the largely complete skeleton of a
4-year-old child buried with pierced shell and red ochre, is dated to
ca. 24,500 years B.P. The cranium, mandible, dentition, and postcrania
present a mosaic of European early modern human and Neandertal features.
The temporal bone has an intermediate-sized juxtamastoid eminence. The
mandibular mentum osseum and the dental size and proportions, supported
by mandibular ramal features, radial tuberosity orientation, and
diaphyseal curvature, as well as the pubic proportions align the
skeleton with early modern humans. Body proportions, reflected in
femorotibial lengths and diaphyseal robusticity plus tibial condylar
displacement, as well as mandibular symphyseal retreat and
thoracohumeral muscle insertions, align the skeleton with the
Neandertals. This morphological mosaic indicates admixture between
regional Neandertals and early modern humans dispersing into southern
Iberia. It establishes the complexities of the Late Pleistocene
emergence of modern humans and refutes strict replacement models of
modern human origins.
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Copyright © 1999 by The National Academy of Sciences
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I mentioned (http://www.calvin.edu/archive/evolution/199904/0260.html)
that:
"Neanderthal muscle attachments were different than ours.
They were extremely strong and some people believe that this evolved in
response to the way they hunted big game (by getting them to charge and
at the last minute stepping aside and grabbing the animals fur and
using short knives to stab the animal and the Neanderthal was carried
along).
No anatomically modern human has Neanderthal-type muscle attachments.
If this boy had those types of attachements, then he was a hybrid, no
doubt."
Trinkaus et al are reporting that this child INDEED HAD SOME OF THE
CHARACTERISTICALLY NEANDERTHAL MUSCLE ATTACHMENTS!!!!!!
This child is a hybrid. If Neanderthal could breed with us, then he WAS
us!