El hombre de la cueva de Urratxa III (Vizcaya)

Résumé

The author has studied in this paper one interesting skeletton (the cranium, two femora and the left innominatum bone) found in the Urratxa 111 Cave, near Bilbao (Vizcaya, Spain). Unfortunately it was found without asure stratigraphical context, because of this datation is no sure. This is amale individual, adult, very robust and of middle stature. The cranium is dolicochranic, ovoid-pentagonoid with middle vault's height (orthocranic) with leptorrhine nose. The orbits are almost rectangular (chamaechonch) with strong protusion of the glabella and the superciliary archs. He has also a little «torus» in the front, in the palate and in the mandible, and two big postglenoideal apophysis. The attrition of the molars and other teeth is very intensiva, without caries. This skull has sorne features of the Upper Palaeolithic Brno's type, like sorne others fossil skulls from the Nothern's Spain. The univariate comparison permit the author to appoint sorne differences between this Urratxa's skull and the Neolithic and Eneolithic series (Levant-Meseta and Basques). The multivariate anal~sis (Cfl, size and shape) shows that the correspondent coefficients of the Urratxa skull, are very similar to those of the Predmost 111 and IX, above all the shape, which is practically the same for the eight metrical characters used in these comparisons.