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. 2010 Jun;26(6):723-7.
doi: 10.1007/s00381-010-1133-y.

The earliest evidence of true lambdoid craniosynostosis: the case of "Benjamina", a Homo heidelbergensis child

Ana Gracia  1 , Juan F Martínez-Lage, Juan-Luis Arsuaga, Ignacio Martínez, Carlos Lorenzo, Miguel-Angel Pérez-Espejo
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The earliest evidence of true lambdoid craniosynostosis: the case of "Benjamina", a Homo heidelbergensis child

Ana Gracia et al. Childs Nerv Syst. 2010 Jun.

Abstract

Background: The authors report the morphological and neuroimaging findings of an immature human fossil (Cranium 14) diagnosed with left lambdoid synostosis.

Discussion: The skull was recovered at the Sima de los Huesos site in Atapuerca (Burgos, Spain). Since the human fossil remains from this site have been dated to a minimum age of 530,000 years, this skull represents the earliest evidence of craniosynostosis occurring in a hominid. A brief historical review of craniosynostosis and cranial deformation is provided.

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