F-81 skeleton from Wadi Mataha, Jordan, and its bearing on human variability in the Epipaleolithic of the Levant

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 453-465

  Stock, J T ^a   Pfeiffer, S K ^b   Chazan, M ^b   Janetski, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cranial variation; Geometric Kebaran; Natufian; Osteometrics; Robusticity

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY HEIGHT; EPIPALEOLITHIC OF THE LEVANT; GEOLOGICAL TIME; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; ISRAEL; JORDAN; MIDDLE EPIPALEOLITHIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOANTHROPOLOGY; SKELETON; SKULL;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; ANIMALS; BIOMECHANICS; BONE AND BONES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; JORDAN; MALE; PALEOPATHOLOGY; SEX DETERMINATION (ANALYSIS); TOOTH;

EID: 26044452652     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20163     Document Type: Article

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