Craniometric relationships among medieval Central European populations: Implications for Croat migration and expansion

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 434-444

  Šlaus, Mario ^a   Tomičić, Željko ^b   Uglešić, Ante ^c   Jurić, Radomir ^d  

^a CROATIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS   (Croatia)

^b Institute of Archaeology   (Croatia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZADAR   (Croatia)

^d Museum of Archaeology   (Croatia)

Author keywords

Craniometry; Croatia; Multivariate analyses

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; CADAVER; CRANIOMETRY; CROATIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EUROPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MIGRATION; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

ARCHAEOLOGY; CEPHALOMETRY; CRANIOLOGY; CROATIA; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE, EASTERN; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HISTORY, MEDIEVAL; HUMANS; MALE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 4444277734     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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