Alfred Czarnetzki

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Alfred Czarnetzki (born February 4, 1937 in Bochum ; † May 20, 2013 in Tübingen ) was a German anthropologist . He was the first describer and discoverer of four fossil finds of the genus Homo as well as co-descriptor alongside Franz Copf senior (discoverer and first describer) of the tensulae (special structures of the bone structure) in the substantia spongiosa of the bone .

Life

Alfred Czarnetzki studied biology (anthropology) with the minor subjects geology and palaeontology as well as prehistory and early history in Cologne and Tübingen from 1961 to 1966 . In 1967 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on four Neolithic stone box populations from Hesse and Lower Saxony . From 1968 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Anthropology and Human Genetics, from 1981 academic senior councilor and independent director of the osteological collection at the University of Tübingen .

In 1974 he acquired the right to teach independently in all areas of paleanthropology , including archaeological knowledge of medieval surgery. From 1982 he was head of the independent unit paleanthropology and osteology of the medical faculty of the University of Tübingen .

Focus of work

  • Methods of paleanthropology
  • Definition and origin of epigenetic skeletal features
  • Phylogeny of the hominids
  • Paleopathology

Discoveries

  • 1984: Skull fragment from Reilingen (new subspecies of Homo erectus : H. erectus reilingensis )
  • 1982: Hominid tooth of the genus Homo ( Homo spec. ) From the Middle Pleistocene from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt
  • 1997: Homo neanderthalensis from Warendorf-Neuwarendorf
  • 2000: H. neanderthalensis von Sarstedt
  • Development of two new methods for determining gender with more than 90% certainty of features of the skull:
    • At the upper edge of the eye socket (Margo supraorbitalis) and
    • on the internal auditory canal (meatus acousticus internus)

Initial descriptions

Publications (selection)

  • as editor: Mute witnesses of their suffering. Diseases and Treatment Before the Medical Revolution. Attempto Verlag, Tübingen 1996, ISBN 3-89308-258-1 . With the collaboration of Stefanie Kölbl (catalog editor), Laura Trellisó Cereño (photos), Benno Urbon (x-rays) and Rainer Czarnetzki (drawings).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Alfred Czarnetzki and colleagues: People of the early Middle Ages. Exhibition catalog. Stuttgart 1982
  2. ↑ A. Czarnetzki: An archaic hominid calvariarest from a gravel pit in Reilingen, Rhein-Neckar-Kreis. In: Quartär 39/40, pp. 191–201
  3. ^ A. Czarnetzki: The fragment of a hominid tooth from the Holstein II period from Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt. In: Journal of human evolution. Volume 14/3, pp. 175-189, Firence 2000
  4. ↑ A. Czarnetzki, Laura Trellisó Carreño: Le fragment d'un os pariétal you Néanderthalien classique de Warendorf virgin village. L'Anthropologie 103/2, pp. 237-248
  5. ↑ A. Czarnetzki, S. Gaudzinski, CM Pusch: Hominid skull fragments from Late Pleistocene layers in Leine Valley (Sarstedt, District of Hildesheim, Germany). In: Journal of human evolution. 41/2, 2001, pp. 133-140, doi: 10.1006 / jhev.2001.0484
personal data
SURNAME Czarnetzki, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Bochum
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 2013
Place of death Tübingen