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- Title
The earliest evidence of true lambdoid craniosynostosis: the case of “Benjamina”, a Homo heidelbergensis child.
- Authors
Gracia, Ana; Martínez-Lage, Juan F.; Arsuaga, Juan-Luis; Martínez, Ignacio; Lorenzo, Carlos; Pérez-Espejo, Miguel-Ángel
- Abstract
The authors report the morphological and neuroimaging findings of an immature human fossil (Cranium 14) diagnosed with left lambdoid synostosis. The skull was recovered at the Sima de los Huesos site in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Since the human fossil remains from this site have been dated to a minimum age of 530,000 years, this skull represents the earliest evidence of craniosynostosis occurring in a hominid. A brief historical review of craniosynostosis and cranial deformation is provided.
- Subjects
BRAIN imaging; FOSSIL hominids; SKULL; SKELETON; MORPHOLOGY
- Publication
Child's Nervous System, 2010, Vol 26, Issue 6, p723
- ISSN
0256-7040
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s00381-010-1133-y