Environmental effects on skeletal versus dental development: Using a documented subadult skeletal sample to test a basic assumption in human osteological research

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 223-233

  Cardoso, Hugo F V ^a  

^a Museu Nacional de Historia Natural Universidade de Lisboa   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Dental age; Reference collections; Skeletal age; Socioeconomic factors

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BONE DEVELOPMENT; BONE MATURATION; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHILD; CHRONOLOGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONG BONE; MALE; OCCUPATION; PORTUGAL; RESEARCH; SOCIOECONOMICS; TOOTH DEVELOPMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BONE DEVELOPMENT; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; PORTUGAL; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TOOTH;

EID: 33846474856     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20482     Document Type: Article

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