Early to mid-Holocene South African Later Stone Age human crania exhibit a distinctly Khoesan morphological pattern

South African Journal of Science

Volumn 103, Issue 7-8, 2007, Pages 349-352

  Stynder, D D ^a,b   Ackermann, R R ^a   Sealy, J C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SHAPE; SIZE; STONE AGE;

AFRICA; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

CRANIA;

EID: 37349015231     PISSN: 00382353     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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