Secular changes in Japanese crania from the late Edo period to the modern period

Anthropological Science

Volumn 111, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-29

  Nagaoka, Tomohito ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Concentric distribution; Cranial morphology; Secular changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; BONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; ENVIRONMENT; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HISTORY; HUMAN; IMMIGRANT; JAPAN; MALE; PERIODICITY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL;

EID: 0037277750     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.111.1     Document Type: Article

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