Cranial discrete traits in a byzantine population and eastern mediterranean population movements

Human Biology

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 535-564

  Ricaut, F X ^a,b   Waelkens, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

Author keywords

Anatolia; Biodistance analysis; Byzantine population; Cranial discrete traits; Mean measure of divergence; Sagalassos

Indexed keywords

AFRICA; ARCHEOLOGY; ARTICLE; ASIA; EUROPE; GENE CLUSTER; GENE FREQUENCY; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALING; OCCUPATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CEPHALOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MIDDLE EAST; MIGRATION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POPULATION GENETICS; SOUTHERN EUROPE; STATISTICS;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BYZANTIUM; CEPHALOMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; GENE FLOW; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS, POPULATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; TURKEY;

EID: 67449101384     PISSN: 00187143     EISSN: 15346617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3378/1534-6617-80.5.535     Document Type: Article

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