On the Reliability of Non-metrical Morphological Sex Determination of the Skull Compared with that of the Pelvis in the Low Countries

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 575-580

  Maat, George J R ^a   Mastwijk, Rob W ^b   Van Der Velde, Edo A ^b  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Non metrical; Pelvis; Sex determination; Skull; The Low Countries; Workshop of European Anthropologists

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000795885     PISSN: 1047482X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1212(199711/12)7:6<575::AID-OA308>3.0.CO;2-4     Document Type: Article

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