Paleodemography of the Greenland Norse

Arctic Anthropology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 122-136

  Lynnerup, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HISTORICAL STUDY; NORSE POPULATION; PALEODEMOGRAPHIC PROFILE; POPULATION SIZE;

GREENLAND;

EID: 0030419069     PISSN: 00666939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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