Foreign elites from the Oxus civilization? A craniometric study of anomalous burials from Bronze Age Tepe Hissar

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 421-434

  Hemphill, Brian E ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Central Asia; Craniometry; Elites; Iran; Phenetic distance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOTOMY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IRAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; ANTHROPOMETRY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FACE; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; IRAN; MALE; SKULL; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0032753745     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199912)110:4<421::AID-AJPA4>3.0.CO;2-H     Document Type: Article

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