Moscow University
Anthropology
Bulletin
Anthropology
Bulletin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Mokhovaya st., 11, Moscow, 125009, Russia
Kharitonov V.M., e-mail: h1946v@yandex.ru; Buzhilova Alexandra P., Ph.D., D.Sc., ORCID ID: 0000-0001-6398-2177, e-mail: albu_pa@mail.ru; Sukhova Alla V., Ph.D., ORCID ID: 0000-0002-8809-3592, e-mail: alla-sukhova@bk.ru
Remains of the child were found by A.A.Formozov in the summer of 1953 during excavation of Middle Pa-leolithic layers in Staroselie’s cave near the city of Bakhchisarai in the Western Crimea. The paper is devoted to the comparative analysis of the individual development of a child from Staroselie taking into account features of vari-ability of the sizes of a skull and the mandible in frame of the scale of known ontogenesis rates of both fossil Sapiens and Neanderthals, as modern children. The child from Staroselie characterized of some archaic features, first of all on the skull indicators. Com-parison of the mandibles of the Staroselie’ child and some Neanderthals like as modern children represents for him the complexes of signs like Sapiens. It testifies, first of all, to existence both of archaic and modern features not only in structure of the skull, but also in growth processes of this hominid. Thus he represents some specific form of the development. Differential comparison of growth processes of skull and mandible of Staroselie’ person, like as Neander-thals, fossil and the modern sapiens showed differences in tempo of ontogenesis (more rapidly growth of the brain part, than modern children; more slowly growth of the face part and the mosaic tendency of the growth of the man-dible of the Staroselie child). The analysis of intensity of growth in age ranks of Neanderthals, fossil and modern Sapiens allows to conclude that on the majority of measuring signs of frontal part of the skull the Staroselie case is more similar to Neanderthals, than to the Sapiens. In the same time, on signs of the mandible, as well as on the ma-jority of signs of brain part of the skull the child represent a special type of growth. The data for developmental bi-ology on example of the child remains from Staroselie testifies a difficult nature of reorganization of growth proc-esses in human evolution, and lack of a one-orientation of characteristics of growth.
ontogenesis, Paleolithic, Staroselie, evolutionary anthropology
Цит.: Kharitonov V.M., Buzhilova A.P., Sukhova A.V. Experience for developmental biology on example of the Mousterian Child remains from Staroselie, West-ern Crimea // Moscow University Anthropology Bulletin (Vestnik Moskovskogo Universiteta. Seria XXIII. Antropologia), 2013; 2/2013; с. 4-16
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