Paleodemography of the Atapuerca-Sima De Los Huesos hominin sample: A revision and new approaches to the paleodemography of the European Middle Pleistocene Population

Journal of Anthropological Research

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 5-26

  De Castro, José María Bermúdez ^a   Martinón Torres, María ^a   Lozano, Marina ^b   Sarmiento, Susana ^a   Muela, Ana ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT ROVIRA I VIRGILI   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARCHEOLOGY; CHIMPANZEE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; DENTITION; EUROPE; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROBABILITY; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SEX DETERMINATION; SKELETON; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 1942487811     PISSN: 00917710     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/jar.60.1.3631006     Document Type: Review

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