Cranial deformation as the cause of death for a child from the Chillon River Valley, Peru;Deformación craneana como causa de muerte de un niño del valle de Chillón, Perú

Chungara

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41-53

  Mendonça de Souza, Sheila M F ^a   Reinhard, Karl J ^b   Lessa, Andrea ^a  

^a INSTITUTO OSWALDO CRUZ   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Chillon River; Paleopathology; Peru; Prehistory; Skull deformation; Skull necrosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 69149110939     PISSN: 07161182     EISSN: 07177356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0717-73562008000100005     Document Type: Article

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