Typicality probabilities of Late Pleistocene human fossils from East Asia, Southeast Asia, and Australia: Implications for the Jomon population in Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 99-111

  Mizoguchi, Yuji ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Jomon; Keilor; Mahalanobis D2 distance; Minatogawa; Typicality probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053467714     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.090330     Document Type: Article

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