Kroeber Anthropological
Society Papers

Nos. 71-72, 1990

Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers

Numbers 71 and 72, 1990

Physical Anthropology at Berkeley

Papers by current students and recent graduates of the Department of Anthropology

University of California, Berkeley

Contents
Preface

Katherine L. Dustin

A Case Study of the "erectus" - "sapiens" Transition in Asia: Hominid Remains

from Hexian and Chaoxian Counties, Anhui Province, China

Dennis   A. Etler ...........................................................           1

Colobine Socioecology and Female-bonded Models of Primate Social Structure

Craig  B. Stanford ...........................................................         21
Towards a More Critical Biomedical Anthropology

John   S. Allen ...........................................................            29

Morphology and Metrics of the Upper Third Molars of Australopithecus afarensis

Pelaji S. Kyauka ...........................................................           35

Humeral Morphology of Achondroplasia

Rina Malonzo and Jeannine Ross ...........................................................  41
Is Sociobiology Methodologically Flawed?

P. Thomas     Schoenemann ...........................................................  49
Comparative Dental Metrics and the Radiation of New World Monkeys: A Preliminary

Analysis

Walter Carl Hartwig ...........................................................        57
Neandertals and the Anterior Dental Loading Hypothesis: A Biomechanical Evaluation

of Bite Force Production

Susan   C. Anton ...........................................................           67

Diet, Species Diversity and Distribution of African Fossil Baboons

Brenda R. Benefit and Monte L. McCrossin ........................................................... 77

The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers

Numbers 71 and 72, 1990

Editor: Katherine L. Dustin

Computer Typesetting: Katherine L. Dustin

Special thanks to Justin Hyland, Jennifer Beer and Roland Moore

Printed by GRT Printing, Oakland, CA

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Preface

The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers was first published in 1950, a year after the Kroeber
Anthropological Society was founded. Thus, this edition marks 40 years of continuous publication of
The Papers by the Kroeber Anthropological Society, the oldest student-run anthropology organization in
the United States. The publication of The KAS Papers has been and continues to be entirely carried out
by the volunteer effort of graduate students at Berkeley, and is supported by the resources of the stu-
dents and the members of the Society.

The papers published in this edition of The Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers are devoted
solely to topics within the subfield of physical anthropology. All the authors are connected to the
Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley in some way, be it as recent
bachelor's candidates, current graduate students or recent Ph.D.'s. The articles provide a sampling of
the latest research being done in physical anthropology at Berkeley; however, they are not meant to
completely represent the spectrum of work being performed here. Topics covered in this edition include
hominid evolution, primate socioecology, biomedical anthropology, primate dental metrics, sociobio-
logy, osteology and primate evolution.

The last time The KAS Papers published any articles concerning physical anthropology was in
1977, when, like now, an entire edition was devoted to the subject. Several of the authors of that
edition have gone on to successful careers in physical anthropology. Before 1977, less than a dozen
physical anthropology articles had been published in The KAS Papers, out of a total of almost 300
papers. This edition is an effort to rectify this historically grievous condition.

-- Katherine L. Dustin, Editor