3D reconstruction of spinal posture of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal

Ella Been; Asier Gómez-Olivencia; Patricia A. Kramer; Alon Barash

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46646-0_18

3D reconstruction of spinal posture of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal

Ella Been
, Asier Gómez-Olivencia
, Patricia A. Kramer
, Alon Barash

Bar-Ilan University - Azrieli Faculty of Medicine

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Abstract

Spinal posture has vast biomechanical, locomotor and pathological implications in hominins. Assessing the curvatures of the spine of fossil hominins can provide important information towards the understanding of their paleobiology. Unfortunately, complete hominin spines are very rarely preserved in the fossil record. The Neanderthal partial skeleton, Kebara 2 from Israel, constitutes a remarkable exception, representing an almost complete spine and pelvis. The aim of this study is, therefore, to create a new 3D virtual reconstruction of the spine of Kebara 2. To build the model, we used the CT scans of the sacrum, lumbar and thoracic vertebrae of Kebara 2, captured its 3D morphology, and, using visualization software (Amira 5.2

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Publisher	Springer
Pages	239-251
Number of pages	13
Edition	9783319466446
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46646-0_18
State	Published - 2017

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Name	Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology
Number	9783319466446
ISSN (Print)	1877-9077

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3D reconstruction
Locomotor differences
Modern humans
Spinal posture

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3D reconstruction of spinal posture of the Kebara 2 Neanderthal. / Been, Ella; Gómez-Olivencia, Asier; Kramer, Patricia A. et al.
Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology. 9783319466446. ed. Springer, 2017. p. 239-251 (Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology; No. 9783319466446).

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