Estimating sex of Maya skeletons by discriminant function analysis of long-bone measurements from the protohistoric Maya site of Tipu, Belize

Ancient Mesoamerica

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 255-263

  Wrobel, Gabriel D ^a   Danforth, Marie E ^b   Armstrong, Carl ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BONE; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; SEX DETERMINATION; SKELETON;

BELIZE;

EID: 0036771505     PISSN: 09565361     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0956536102132044     Document Type: Article

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