Morphometric affinity of the late Neolithic human remains from Man Bac, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam: Key skeletons with which to debate the two layer hypothesis

Anthropological Science

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 135-148

  Matsumura, Hirofumi ^a   Oxenham, Marc F ^b   Dodo, Yukio ^c   Domett, Kate ^d   Thuy, Nguyen Kim ^e   Cuong, Nguyen Lan ^e   Dung, Nguyen Kim ^e   Huffer, Damien ^g   Yamagata, Mariko ^f  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e Institute of Archeology   (Viet Nam)

^f WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^g NONE

Author keywords

Human remains; Late neolithic; Man Bac; Two layer hypothesis; Vietnam

Indexed keywords

EID: 51149093469     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.070405     Document Type: Article

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