Late Pleistocene modern human mandibles from the Minatogawa Fissure site, Okinawa, Japan: Morphological affinities and implications for modern human dispersals in East Asia

Anthropological Science

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 137-157

  Kaifu, Yousuke ^a,b   Fujita, Masaki ^c   Kono, Reiko T ^a   Baba, Hisao ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum   (Japan)

Author keywords

Early modern human; East Asia; Homo sapiens; Jomon; Ryukyu

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053509464     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.090424     Document Type: Article

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