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- Title
The Application of Bayes' Theorem to the Narmada Cranial Specimen from India: Do its Morphometric Features Show Affinity to Homo erectus, Neanderthals, Archaic Homo sapiens or Modern Homo sapiens?
- Authors
Kennedy, K. A. R.
- Abstract
In the central Narmada valley of Madhya Pradesh, India, a fossil hominine calvaria was discovered in 1982. First classified as Homo erectus narmadensis by its discoverer, a geologist, the present author examined the specimen in 1988 and assigned its taxonomic place to an anatomically archaic Homo sapiens. This decision was based upon two scientific procedures: 1. Metrical and morphological compilations, and 2. Employment of the statistical product of Bayes' Theorum. Comparative data included 30 hominine crania from Europe, Asia and the Near East within a temporal framework of the Early to Late Pleistocene and the Holocene periods. At the time of the publication of this manuscript, the Narmada calvaria was the first known fossil hominine specimen recovered from the Indian subcontinent. It has been given a relative date based upon lithic and faunal associations of ca. 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. The chronological history of publications concerning the studies and theories about the Narmada specimen written from 1984 to the date of this study is included. Current ideas about its taxonomic place, the palaeoenvironment of the Pliocene and Pleistocene and hominine fossils recovered from these epochs in Asia are discussed along with the present author's new perspectives.
- Publication
Human Evolution, 2014, Vol 29, Issue 4, p265
- ISSN
0393-9375
- Publication type
Academic Journal