Eight hundred-year-old human remains from the Ituri tropical forest, democratic Republic of Congo: The rock shelter site of Matangai Turu Northwest

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 24-37

  Mercader, Julio ^a   Garralda, Mara Dolores ^a   Pearson, Osbjorn M ^b   Bailey, Robert C ^c,d  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^d John H Stroger   (United States)

Author keywords

African rainforest; Congo basin; Human remains; Ituri; Later Stone Age; Rock shelter

Indexed keywords

IRON;

AFRICA; AGE DETERMINATION; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE; CERAMICS; CONGO; FOREST; FRUIT; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; ROCK; SKELETON;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BODY HEIGHT; BONE AND BONES; DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO; DENTITION; DIET; ENVIRONMENT; HUMANS;

EID: 0035037902     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1053     Document Type: Article

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