Pathological alterations in the archaic Homo sapiens cranium from Eliye Springs, Kenya

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 200-204

  Bräuer, Günter ^a   Groden, Christoph ^b   Delling, Günter ^a   Kupczik, Kornelius ^a,c   Mbua, Emma ^d   Schultz, Michael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d INSTITUTE OF PRIMATE RESEARCH   (Kenya)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anemia; Computerized tomography; Middle Pleistocene; Paleopathology

Indexed keywords

ANEMIA; ARTICLE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRANIOFACIAL MORPHOLOGY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KENYA; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKULL; SKULL DEVELOPMENT;

ANEMIA; ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; KENYA; MALE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SKULL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037311390     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10144     Document Type: Article

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