Cranial nonmetrical analyses of the Yayoi people in the northwestern Kyushu area

Anthropological Science

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 27-44

  Saiki, Kazunobu ^a   Wakebe, Tetsuaki ^a   Nagashima, Seiji ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cranial nonmetric traits; Incidence pattern; Northwestern Kyushu area; Yayoi people

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033622365     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.108.27     Document Type: Article

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