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Hypertrophy of the acetabulo‐cristal buttress in Homo sapiens
Author(s) -
Rader William T.,
Peters Charles R.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
american journal of physical anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.146
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1096-8644
pISSN - 0002-9483
DOI - 10.1002/ajpa.1330920204
Subject(s) - buttress , thickening , homo sapiens , anatomy , muscle hypertrophy , biology , archaeology , geography , engineering , pulp and paper industry , endocrinology
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 . © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.