05.10.2023Out of Asia project publication on Morphological and Genetic Analysis of Roth's 'Human Fossil' from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Chiara Barbieri and colleagues publish the results of an interdisciplinary approach to study and contextualize the ancient individual remains of a collection of skeleton parts first recovered by the paleontologist Santiago Roth and further studied by the anthropologist Rudolf Martin, considered one of the oldest human skeletons from South America's southern cone.

The authors conclude that the revision of foundational collections with current methodological tools brings new insights and clarifies long held assumptions on the significance of samples that were recovered when archaeology was not yet professionalized.

Menéndez, L.P., Barbieri, C., López Cruz, I.G. et al. On Roth’s “human fossil” from Baradero, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina: morphological and genetic analysis. Swiss J Palaeontol 142, 26 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13358-023-00293-3 (Open Access)