Sex determination using mastoid process measurements: Standards for Japanese human skeletons of the medieval and early modern periods

Anthropological Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 105-113

  Nagaoka, Tomohito ^a   Shizushima, Akio ^b   Sawada, Junmei ^a   Tomo, Soichiro ^a   Hoshino, Keigo ^a   Sato, Hanako ^a   Hirata, Kazuaki ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Mastoid process; Measurement errors; Sex determination

Indexed keywords

EID: 50949117684     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.070605     Document Type: Article

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