New evaluation of the Castel di Guido 'hyoid'.

Abstract

Castel di Guido is located west of Rome and part of the Aurelian formation (Mariani-Constantini et al., 2001) along with other sites such as Torre in Petra and La Polledrara (Mussi, 2001). These localities are a mixture of surface collections and excavated sites, all associated with Acheulean tools and dated to MIS 9. At Castel di Guido material was collected from the surface and excavations in an erosional channel (Mariani-Constantini et al., 2001; Mussi, 2001). The Middle Pleistocene dates suggest an age of around 400 ka. Direct associations between the human bones and tools do not exist, but based on the size and degree of fossilization the human material is thought to be late Acheulean. The deposits overlie tuffs from the Sabatini volcanic eruptions, dated at 431 ka+/-40 ka 438 ka +/40 ka. so cannot be older than this. Originally six fragmentary bones were recovered from the site (Alciati et al., 2005) but Capasso, Michetti & D'Anastasio (2008) found additional material based on their survey of the material for post-mortem modifications. Publication Details Capasso, L., D'Anastasio, R., Mancini, L., Tuniz, C. & Frayer, D. W. (2016). New evaluation of the Castel di Guido 'hyoid'. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 94 231-235. This journal article is available at Research Online: http://ro.uow.edu.au/smhpapers/4264 JASs Correspondence & Notes Journal of Anthropological Sciences the JASs is published by the Istituto Italiano di Antropologia www.isita-org.com Vol. 94 (2016), pp. 231-235 New evaluation of the Castel di Guido ‘hyoid’ Luigi Capasso1,2, Ruggero D’Anastasio1,2, Lucia Mancini3, Claudio Tuniz4,5 & David W. Frayer6 1) University Museum, State University “G. d’Annunzio”, Piazza Trento e Trieste 1, 66100 Chieti, Italy 2) Dept. Medicine and Ageing Sciences, University “G. d’Annunzio”, Via dei Vestini 29, 66100 Chieti, Italy e-mail: r.danastasio@unich.it 3) Elettra-Sincrotrone Trieste S.C.p.A., S.S. 14, km 163.5, Area Science Park, 34149 Basovizza, Trieste, Italy 4) The “Abdus Salam” International Centre for Theoretical Physics, Strada Costiera 11, 34151 Trieste, Italy 5) Centre for Archaeological Science, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, 2022 NSW, Australia 6) Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045 KS, USA