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Histomorphometric age assessment of the Boxgrove 1 tibial diaphysis
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Histomorphometric age assessment of the Boxgrove 1 tibial diaphysis

Margaret Streeter, Sam D. Stout, Erik Trinkaus, Chris B. Stringer, Mark B. Roberts and Simon A. Parfitt
Journal of human evolution, Vol.40(4), pp.331-338
04-01-2001
PMID: 11312585

Abstract

human paleontology, hominids, histomorphometry, age-at-death
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.

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