Dental morbid condition of hunter-gatherers on Okinawa island during the middle period of the prehistoric shell midden culture and of agriculturalists in northern Kyushu during the Yayoi period

Anthropological Science

Volumn 104, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 261-280

  Oyamada, Joichi ^a   Manabe, Yoshitaka ^a   Kitagawa, Yoshikazu ^a   Rokutanda, Atsushi ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Agriculturalists; Dental disease; Hunter gatherers; Prehistoric shell midden culture; Yayoi

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030329569     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.104.261     Document Type: Article

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