The Grotta Guattari mandibular remains in the Italian human evolutionary context: A morphological and morphometrical overlook of the Neanderthal jaw

Mandibular remains constitute one of the most variable elements of the skeleton. The reason of such variability could be explained by several factors: sexual dimorphism, inter-individual variability or differences in chronology, which will be tested in this study. The reassessment of Guattari 2 and 3 has the potential to shed new light on the morphology of mandibular fossil specimens from the Italian peninsula, and increase our knowledge of the mandibular variability of the Neanderthals.