Influence of size and placement of developing teeth in determining anterior corpus height in prehistoric Jomon and modern Japanese mandibles

Anthropological Science

Volumn 118, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-86

  Fukase, Hitoshi ^a   Suwa, Gen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

Development; Jomon; Mandibular symphysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955800111     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.090513     Document Type: Article

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