[ Index Image ] 旧人ネアンデルタールと新人クロマニョンの対面
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A modern human child (right) and the Gibraltar 1 Neanderthal child (left)
Neanderthals differ from anatomically modern Homo sapiens in a suite of cranial features:
- a low but elongated and broadened braincase;
- characteristic cranial suprastructures such as a supraorbital torus, a small mastoid process, a large juxtamastoid eminence, and a suprainiac fossa;
- a large face with rounded orbits, an wide nasal aperture, an inflated paranasal region and an anteroposteriorly slanting infraorbital region;
- a mandible with a receding chin region and a retromolar space in adult individuals;
Christoph A.E. Zollikofer, University of Zurich
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