Women walk through a dark tunnel and
we see human skulls piled in alcoves.
Not exact matches
To glean insights into how bones grow — and thus to better interpret fossilized
human jaws and
skulls — the student wanted to
see whether the repeated impact of running would spur a thickening of the pig's
skull.
Juan Luis Arsuaga Ferreras at the UCM - ISCIII Joint Centre for Research into
Human Evolution and Behaviour in Madrid, Spain, and his team studied 17 of the
skulls (
see photo).
Likewise, the shape of the
skull vault, which surrounds the brain, and chin anatomy were both outside the range
seen in
humans, with or without Down syndrome.
The
skull shows a new mix of features not
seen before in fossil
humans — it has traits that link it to Neandertals, such as a fused brow ridge, as well as some primitive traits that resemble other extinct fossils in Europe.
The belief was so ingrained that paleoanthropologists and others investigating
human evolution figured that if they
saw molar eruption in the fossilized
skull of a young
human ancestor, they'd assume they knew the age and feeding behavior.
The partial
human skull from Longlin Cave and the
human calotte, partial mandibles and teeth from Maludong both present a range of individual features and a composite of characters not
seen among Pleistocene or recent populations of H. sapiens.
Gould reexamined Morton's data on cranial capacity variation in modern
human populations and concluded that Morton had selectively reported data (
see Box 1), manipulated sample compositions (
see Box 2), made analytical errors, and mismeasured
skulls in order to support his a priori views on intelligence differences between
human groups.
The
skulls of dead aliens are
seen, along with some
human corpses and taxidermy animals.
In addition to
skulls and bones, you also can
see several tombs centuries old, as well as long
human hairs, ceramic fragments and others remains scattered on the desert surface.
Typical «found objects» include natural materials like sand (
see Sand Art), earth, stones, shells, curiously shaped pieces of wood, a
human skull; or man - made items such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, pieces of glass, fragments of scrap metal, pieces of textile fabric, an unmade bed, a bicycle handlebars, and so on.