Haile-Selassie Y, Asfaw B, White T D
Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Cleveland, Ohio 44106, USA.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2004 Jan;123(1):1-10. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.10330.
The Upper Pleistocene localities of Aduma and Bouri have yielded hominid fossils and extensive Middle Stone Age (MSA) archaeological assemblages. The vertebrate fossils recovered include parts of four hominid crania from Aduma and a complete right parietal from Bouri. Archaeological associations and radiometric techniques suggest an Upper Pleistocene age for these hominids. The more complete cranium from Aduma (ADU-VP-1/3) comprises most of the parietals, the occipital, and part of the frontal. This cranium is compared to late Middle and Upper Pleistocene hominid crania from Africa and the Middle East. The Aduma cranium shows a mosaic of cranial features shared with "premodern" and anatomically modern Homo sapiens. However, the posterior and lateral cranial dimensions, and most of its anatomy, are centered among modern humans and resemble specimens from Omo, Skhul, and Qafzeh. As a result, the Aduma and Bouri Upper Pleistocene hominids are assigned to anatomically modern Homo sapiens.
阿杜马和布里的更新世晚期遗址出土了人类化石以及大量的中石器时代（MSA）考古组合。所发现的脊椎动物化石包括来自阿杜马的四块人类颅骨碎片以及来自布里的一块完整的右顶骨。考古关联和放射性测量技术表明这些人类化石的年代为更新世晚期。来自阿杜马的更完整的颅骨（ADU-VP-1/3）包括大部分顶骨、枕骨和部分额骨。将这块颅骨与来自非洲和中东的中更新世晚期及晚更新世人类颅骨进行了比较。阿杜马颅骨呈现出与“前现代人”以及解剖学意义上的现代智人共有的颅骨特征组合。然而，颅骨的后部和侧面尺寸及其大部分解剖结构处于现代人类的范围之内，并且与来自奥莫、斯虎尔和卡夫泽的标本相似。因此，阿杜马和布里的更新世晚期人类被归类为解剖学意义上的现代智人。
