Twenty-five thousand-year-old triple burial from dolni vestonice: An ice-age family?

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 123-131

  Alt, Kurt W ^a   Pichler, Sandra ^b   Vach, Werner ^b   Klíma, Bohuslav ^c   Vlček, Emanuel ^d   Sedlmeier, Jürg ^e  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^d CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^e Kanton Basel Landschaft ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

biostatistics; kinship analysis; multiple burial; non metric traits; odontologic traits; upper palaeolithic

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POSTHUMOUS CARE; RELATIVE; REVIEW; SKELETON;

ANIMALS; BURIAL; CZECH REPUBLIC; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PALEONTOLOGY; STATISTICS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0031037813     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199701)102:1<123::AID-AJPA10>3.0.CO;2-2     Document Type: Review

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