Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 1984, Vol. 3 ›› Issue (03): 210-211.

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Estimation of the stature of Liujiang paleolithic man

Wu Xinzhi, Zhang Zhenbiao, Zhang Jianjiun   

  • Online:1984-09-15 Published:1984-09-15

Abstract: The authors made a reconstructed femur based on fragment of femur of paleolithic age found in 1958 from a cave in Liujiang County, Guangxi. The length of this reconstructed bone is 40.6 cm.
The femur is supposed as belonging to a male individual, whose stature should be 156.69 ± 3.74 cm as calculated witli a formula suggested by Mo Shitai (1983) based on Han skeleton from South China. It is calculated to be 157.0±3.59 em with a formula suggested by wang Yonghao (1979) based on Han skeleton from Sichuan Province. Liujiang man was shorter than the average modern men living in the same area by 6— 7 cm.
However, the femur was not impossible to belong to a woman. If so, she should be 152 cm tall and was shorter than the average modern women living in the same area by 3 cm.

Key words: Stature; Liujiang man; Paleolithic age