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Zuttiyeh face A view from the East.

By: Sohn, Songy.
Contributor(s): Wolpoff, Milford H.
Subject(s): Zuttiyeh | paleoanthropology | Asia | neandertal | levant | zhoukoudian In: American Journal of Physical Anthropology 91(3)Summary: We analyze the phylogenetic position of the frontofacial fragment from Zuttiyeh, Israel. This specimen is dated to the middle pleistocene and is associated with the acheulo-yabrudian, which makes it the oldest cranium from the region. It has been previously regarded as a neandertal, and early "anatomically modern Homo sapiens", and a generalized specimen ancestral to both. These different phylogenetic interpretations of its features have a historic basis but in our sources of variation. We show here that generally the differences that distinguish zuttiyeh from neandertals are similarities if shares with the zhoukoudian remains. These similarities involve a unique combination of features, and suggest the possibility of an ancestral relationship. It is less likely that middle pleistocene remains from Europe or sub-Saharan Africa are uniquely or significantly ancestral to Zuttiyeh.
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We analyze the phylogenetic position of the frontofacial fragment from Zuttiyeh, Israel. This specimen is dated to the middle pleistocene and is associated with the acheulo-yabrudian, which makes it the oldest cranium from the region. It has been previously regarded as a neandertal, and early "anatomically modern Homo sapiens", and a generalized specimen ancestral to both. These different phylogenetic interpretations of its features have a historic basis but in our sources of variation. We show here that generally the differences that distinguish zuttiyeh from neandertals are similarities if shares with the zhoukoudian remains. These similarities involve a unique combination of features, and suggest the possibility of an ancestral relationship. It is less likely that middle pleistocene remains from Europe or sub-Saharan Africa are uniquely or significantly ancestral to Zuttiyeh.