Evolution of Postcranial Morphology during the Agricultural Transition in Prehistoric Japan

Human Bioarchaeology of the Transition to Agriculture

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 235-262

  Temple, Daniel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioarchaeological analyses of phenotypic variability agricultural transition in prehistoric Japan, parsing out environmental and genetic influences on shifts in morphology; Cariogenic cultigen reliance the Jomon period; Cranial, and dental size and shape variances in Jomon and Yayoi people with environment and gene flow; Interpreting patterns of variation in postcranial skeleton of prehistoric Jomon; Postcranial morphology variability migratory and agricultural transition, Jomon and Yayoi people; Prehistoric Japan, agricultural transition population migrations from East Asian continent; Prehistoric Japan, and agricultural transition postcranial morphology evolution; Principal components analysis of size standardized limb lengths; Systemic stress variability stature estimations, patterns of systemic stress between skeletal samples

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EID: 84857233001     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470670170.ch10     Document Type: Chapter

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