Kinship analysis of the Jomon skeletons unearthed from a double burial at the Usu-Moshiri site, Hokkaido, Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-34

  Adachi, Noboru ^a   Suzuki, Toshihiko ^b   Sakaue, Kazuhiro ^a   Takigawa, Wataru ^a   Ohshima, Naoyuki ^c   Dodo, Yukio ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Board of Education Date City   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ancient DNA; Double burial; Jomon; Odontological kinship analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645881351     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.041228     Document Type: Article

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