Facial characteristics of the prehistoric and early-modern inhabitants of the Okinawa Islands in comparison to the contemporary people of Honshu

Anthropological Science

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 23-32

  Fukase, Hitoshi ^a   Wakebe, Tetsuaki ^b   Tsurumoto, Toshiyuki ^b   Saiki, Kazunobu ^b   Fujita, Masaki ^c   Ishida, Hajime ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum   (Japan)

Author keywords

Facial flatness; Japanese population history; Jomon; Ryukyu

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860212660     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.110411     Document Type: Article

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