Brief communication: The Thule migration: Rejecting population histories using computer simulation

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 134, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-284

  Marchani, Elizabeth E ^a   Rogers, A R ^a   O'Rourke, D H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Coalescent theory; Computer simulation; Mitochondrial haplogroups; Thule migration

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARCHEOLOGY; ARCTIC; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRANIOMETRY; GENETIC CODE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; MITOCHONDRIAL GENE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; PLESIOMORPHY; POPULATION MIGRATION; THULE MIGRATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; HAPLOTYPES; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 34548725013     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.20650     Document Type: Article

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