More is not always better: Trotter and Gleser's equations and stature estimates of Upper Paleolithic European samples

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 239-244

  Formicola, Vincenzo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Stature; Trotter and Gleser's equations; Upper Paleolithic

Indexed keywords

PALEOLITHIC;

ANIMALIA; HOMINIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0242662667     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0047-2484(03)00104-0     Document Type: Article

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