Nonmetric cranial variants in a medieval Japanese sample from Ichikishima-jinja site

Anthropological Science

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 89-98

  Mouri, Toshio ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cranial nonmetric character; Ichikishima jinja site; Medieval Japanese; Secular change; Side incidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030520482     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.104.89     Document Type: Article

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