Relative chronology of the Minatogawa and the Upper Minatogawa series of human remains from Okinawa Island, Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 173-182

  Matsu'ura, Shuji ^a   Kondo, Megumi ^a  

^a OCHANOMIZU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Late Pleistocene; Minatogawa human remains; Multielement analyses; Relative chronology; Upper Minatogawa human remains

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053555772     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.100322     Document Type: Article

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