Sentences with word «calvaria»
OH12 is a partial calvaria with associated maxillary fragment.
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The overall shape and discrete morphological features of the Manot 1 calvaria demonstrate that this partial skull is unequivocally modern.
Our live imaging of developing skulls reveals that oriented osteoblast cell division occurs at the growing front of calvaria.
This explanation has also been invoked to explain the unusual morphology of the Iwo Eleru calvaria [46].
Here we describe a partial calvaria, recently discovered at Manot Cave (Western Galilee, Israel) and dated to 54.7 ± 5.5 kyr bp (arithmetic mean ± 2 standard deviations) by uranium — thorium dating, that sheds light on this crucial event.
Indeed, it is the rotational movements of the brain inside the calvaria (meaning all of the cranium except for the facial bones) and the shearing forces affecting the upper reticular formation that create torque, which leads to the typical loss of consciousness.
OH9 is a calvaria, that is, the major portion of a braincase.
The fragment is a skullcap or calvaria and dated to 55,000 years ago.