Degenerative changes of the spine in people from prehistoric Okhotsk culture and two ancient human groups from kanto and Okinawa, Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-21

  Shimoda, Yasushi ^a   Nagaoka, Tomohito ^b   Moromizato, Keiichi ^a   Sunagawa, Masanobu ^a   Hanihara, Tsunehiko ^c   Yoneda, Minoru ^d   Hirata, Kazuaki ^b   Ono, Hiroko ^e   Amano, Tetsuya ^e   Fukumine, Tadahiko ^a   Ishida, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Degenerative changes; Okhotsk culture; Osteoarthritis; Paleopathology; Spine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860113072     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.100925     Document Type: Article

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