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Gough's Cave 1 (Somerset, England): a study of the pelvis and lower limbs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 May 2004

ERIK TRINKAUS
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Campus Box 1114, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
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Abstract

The lower limb remains of Gough's Cave 1 retain most of the pelvis, both femora, one complete tibia and portions of the other, sections of both fibulae, two tarsals and three metatarsals. They are those of a largely average European Mesolithic young adult male. Overall diaphyseal robusticity is generally similar to that of other Mesolithic specimens, even though the fibula and third metatarsal appear gracile. Musculo-ligamentous attachment areas are generally weakly marked. The proximal femora and the femoral diaphyses exhibit a clear asymmetry, especially in their neck-shaft angles and diaphyseal dimensions, which is is accompanied in the pelvis by a greater degree of left iliac lateral flare. These aspects are associated with a pelvis that combines several distinctly male characteristics with an overall pelvic aperture shape which is female.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© Natural History Museum, 2003

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