An III Child among Mid-Holocene Foragers of Southern Africa

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 123, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 23-29

  Pfeiffer, Susan ^a,b   Crowder, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Infant mortality; Infanticide; Khoisan; Rickets; South Africa

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CARBON 14; NITROGEN; CARBON; COLLAGEN;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CALCIUM INTAKE; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DIET; FOSSIL; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERPLASIA; INFANTICIDE; ISOTOPE LABELING; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METAPHYSIS; RICKETS; SKELETON; SOUTH AFRICA; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY; AGE DETERMINATION; BONE; CHEMISTRY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HISTORY; INFANT; PALEOPATHOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; BONE AND BONES; CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPES; COLLAGEN; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INFANT; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; PALEOPATHOLOGY; RICKETS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 0348050048     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.10297     Document Type: Article

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