Cranial photographs of mammals on the web: The Mammalian Crania Photographic Archive (MCPA2) and a comparison of bone image databases

Anthropological Science

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 217-222

  Takahashi, Hideo ^a   Yamashita, Masaki ^a   Shigehara, Nobuo ^b  

^a DOKKYO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anatomical view; Cranium; Digital camera; Image database; Mammal

Indexed keywords

EID: 33845763916     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.051201     Document Type: Article

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