Taiwan aboriginals and peoples of the Pacific-Asia region: Multivariate craniometric comparisons

Anthropological Science

Volumn 111, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 293-332

  Pietrusewsky, Michael ^a   Chang, Ching Fang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Biodistance studies; Craniometry; Multivariate statistics; Shi San Hang; Taiwan Aboriginals

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIA; AUSTRALIA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ETHNIC GROUP; FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MEASUREMENT; MELANESIA; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; POLYNESIA; SAMPLE; SKULL; SOUTHEAST ASIA; TAIWAN;

EID: 0141494344     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.111.293     Document Type: Article

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