Hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress in Homo sapiens
- 1 October 1993
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Physical Anthropology
- Vol. 92 (2) , 149-153
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.1330920204
Abstract
In the early 1970s, excavation at the King site, a contact period Mississippian village in northwest Georgia, yielded the skeletal remains of a robust male (King 65) possessing marked hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress. The buttress is morphologically similar to that of Plio‐Pleistocene Homo but it is accompanied by an anatomically modern degree of thickening of the gluteal table of the ilium. Although the degree of cortical thickness of the gluteal table of the ilium is apparently species‐specific, hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress is developmental and may be expressed in all species of Homo.Keywords
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