The later stone age calvaria from Iwo Eleru, Nigeria: Morphology and chronology

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Harvati, Katerina ^a   Stringer, Chris ^b   Grün, Rainer ^c   Aubert, Maxime ^c   Allsworth Jones, Philip ^d   Folorunso, Caleb Adebayo ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b DEPARTMENT OF LIFE SCIENCES   (United Kingdom)

^c AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IBADAN   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

URANIUM;

ARTICLE; BONE AGE; CALVARIA; CHRONOLOGY; CORTICAL BONE; FOSSIL HUMAN; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRICS; NIGERIA; SKULL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STONE AGE; UPPER PLEISTOCENE; ANIMAL; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHY; HISTOLOGY; HOMINID; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; FEMALE; FOSSILS; GEOGRAPHY; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NIGERIA; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 80052844069     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024024     Document Type: Article

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