An alternative view of the peopling of South America: Lagoa Santa in craniometric perspective

Anthropological Science

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 21-38

  Seguchi, Noriko ^a   Mckeown, Ashley ^a   Schmidt, Ryan ^a   Umeda, Hideyuki ^b   Brace, C Loring ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaic Americans; Craniometrics; Paleoamericans; The prehistoric J mon of Japan

Indexed keywords

EID: 79957573418     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.090921     Document Type: Article

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