Craniometric variation in the Americas

Human Biology

Volumn 74, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 807-818

  Ross, Ann H ^a   Ubelaker, Douglas H ^b   Falsetti, Anthony B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniometrics; Human variation; Multivariate statistics; New world

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; CRANIOMETRY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 0036998462     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/hub.2003.0010     Document Type: Article

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