Date of Award
2002
Document Type
Thesis
Publication Status
Version of Record
Submission Date
October 2026
Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]
Broadfield, Douglas C.
Abstract
The cranial morphology of European Upper Paleolithic hominins is analyzed and compared with crania from other populations including other Late Pleistocene groups, Neanderthals, and modern Holocene populations. The results of distance, cluster and principal component analyses as well as univariate tests indicate that the European Upper Paleolithic is most similar to other Late Pleistocene populations and to modern Europeans. Combined with the calculated degree of variation in each group, the evidence points to continuity from the Late Pleistocene to Holocene populations, but not from Neanderthals to the Upper Paleolithic. These results lend support to the Recent African Origin hypothesis which suggests that anatomically modern Homo sapiens evolved from a common ancestor which did not include Neanderthals.
Extent
136 p.
Recommended Citation
Constantino, Paul J., "Cranial morphology of European Upper Paleolithic hominins and other Pleistocene populations" (2002). Electronic Theses and Dissertations 2000 - 2009. 362.
https://digitalcommons.fau.edu/etd_general_5/362
Identifier
FADT12925
Comments
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 2002.|Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters