Ethnohistorical evidence for inbreeding among the pre-Hispanic mixtec royal caste

Human Biology

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 563-577

  Christensen, Alexander F ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Codices; Consanguinity; Mesoamerica; Mexico; Mixtec; Oaxaca; Pre Columbian

Indexed keywords

CERVIDAE;

EID: 0032104629     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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