Paleodemography: “Not quite dead”

Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1994, Pages 92-105

  Konigsberg, Lyle W ^a   Frankenberg, Susan R ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Age estimation; hazards analysis; maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002687112     PISSN: 10601538     EISSN: 15206505     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/evan.1360030306     Document Type: Article

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