Health and the experience of childhood in late Neolithic Viet Nam

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 190-209

  Oxenham, Marc ^a   Matsumura, Hirofumi ^b   Domett, Kate ^c   Thuy, Nguyen Kim ^d   Dung, Nguyen Kim ^d   Cuong, Nguyen Lan ^d   Huffer, Damien ^a   Muller, Sarah ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Institute of Archaeology   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeology; Childhood; Health; Mortuary behavior; Neolithic; Palaeodemography; Viet nam

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGY; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; BRONZE AGE; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD MORTALITY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMIC GROWTH; HEALTH MONITORING; METHODOLOGY; NEOLITHIC; ORAL HEALTH; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SAMPLING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; VIET NAM;

EID: 67651214187     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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