Paleoamerican morphology in the context of European and East Asian late Pleistocene variation: Implications for human dispersion into the new world

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 442-453

  Hubbe, Mark ^a   Harvati, Katerina ^b   Neves, Walter ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DEL NORTE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

America's settlement; morphological diversity; multivariate analysis; Upper Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISPERSION; EUROPE; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE;

AFRICA; AMERICAS; ASIA; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CONTINENTAL POPULATION GROUPS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; EUROPE; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 79951474931     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.21425     Document Type: Article

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