@article {328701,
	title = {Anatomically modern human in the Ch{\^a}telperronian hominin collection from the Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure, Northeast France).},
	journal = {Sci Rep},
	volume = {13},
	year = {2023},
	month = {2023 Aug 04},
	pages = {12682},
	abstract = {<p>Around 42,000 years ago, anatomically modern humans appeared in Western Europe to the detriment of indigenous Neanderthal groups. It is during this period that new techno-cultural complexes appear, such as the Ch{\^a}telperronian that extends from northern Spain to the Paris Basin. The Grotte du Renne (Arcy-sur-Cure) is a key site for discussing the biological identity of its makers. This deposit has yielded several Neanderthal human remains in its Ch{\^a}telperronian levels. However, the last inventory of the paleoanthropological collection attributed to this techno-complex allowed the identification of an ilium belonging to a neonate (AR-63) whose morphology required a thorough analysis to assess its taxonomic attribution. Using geometric morphometrics, we quantified its morphology and compared it to that of 2 Neanderthals and 32 recent individuals deceased during the perinatal period to explore their morphological variation. Our results indicate a morphological distinction between the ilia of Neanderthals and anatomically modern neonates. Although AR-63 is slightly outside recent variability, it clearly differs from the Neanderthals. We propose that this is due to its belonging to an early modern human lineage whose morphology differs slightly from present-day humans. We also explore different hypotheses about the presence of this anatomically modern neonate ilium among Neanderthal remains.</p>
},
	keywords = {Animals, Europe, Fossils, France, Hominidae, Humans, Infant, Newborn, Neanderthals, Spain},
	issn = {2045-2322},
	doi = {10.1038/s41598-023-39767-2},
	url = {https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-39767-2},
	author = {Gicqueau, Arthur and Schuh, Alexandra and Henrion, Juliette and Viola, Bence and Partiot, Caroline and Guillon, Mark and Golovanova, Liubov and Doronichev, Vladimir and Gunz, Philipp and Hublin, Jean-Jacques and Maureille, Bruno}
}
