TY - JOUR
T1 - Middle pleistocene human remains from Tourville-la-Rivière (Normandy, France) and their archaeological context
AU - Faivre, Jean Philippe
AU - Maureille, Bruno
AU - Bayle, Priscilla
AU - Crevecoeur, Isabelle
AU - Duval, Mathieu
AU - Grün, Rainer
AU - Bemilli, Céline
AU - Bonilauri, Stéphanie
AU - Coutard, Sylvie
AU - Bessou, Maryelle
AU - Limondin-Lozouet, Nicole
AU - Cottard, Antoine
AU - Deshayes, Thierry
AU - Douillard, Aurélie
AU - Henaff, Xavier
AU - Pautret-Homerville, Caroline
AU - Kinsley, Les
AU - Trinkaus, Erik
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 Faivre et al.
PY - 2014/10/8
Y1 - 2014/10/8
N2 - Despite numerous sites of great antiquity having been excavated since the end of the 19th century, Middle Pleistocene human fossils are still extremely rare in northwestern Europe. Apart from the two partial crania from Biache-Saint-Vaast in northern France, all known human fossils from this period have been found from ten sites in either Germany or England. Here we report the discovery of three long bones from the same left upper limb discovered at the open-air site of Tourville-la-Rivière in the Seine Valley of northern France. New U-series and combined US-ESR dating on animal teeth produced an age range for the site of 183 to 236 ka. In combination with paleoecological indicators, they indicate an age toward the end of MIS 7. The human remains from Tourville-la-Rivière are attributable to the Neandertal lineage based on morphological and metric analyses. An abnormal crest on the left humerus represents a deltoid muscle enthesis. Micro- and or macro-traumas connected to repetitive movements similar to those documented for professional throwing athletes could be origin of abnormality.
AB - Despite numerous sites of great antiquity having been excavated since the end of the 19th century, Middle Pleistocene human fossils are still extremely rare in northwestern Europe. Apart from the two partial crania from Biache-Saint-Vaast in northern France, all known human fossils from this period have been found from ten sites in either Germany or England. Here we report the discovery of three long bones from the same left upper limb discovered at the open-air site of Tourville-la-Rivière in the Seine Valley of northern France. New U-series and combined US-ESR dating on animal teeth produced an age range for the site of 183 to 236 ka. In combination with paleoecological indicators, they indicate an age toward the end of MIS 7. The human remains from Tourville-la-Rivière are attributable to the Neandertal lineage based on morphological and metric analyses. An abnormal crest on the left humerus represents a deltoid muscle enthesis. Micro- and or macro-traumas connected to repetitive movements similar to those documented for professional throwing athletes could be origin of abnormality.
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U2 - 10.1371/journal.pone.0104111
DO - 10.1371/journal.pone.0104111
M3 - Article
SN - 1932-6203
VL - 9
JO - PLoS ONE
JF - PLoS ONE
IS - 10
M1 - e104111
ER -