Brief communication: The human humerus from the Broken Hill Mine, Kabwe, Zambia

American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Volumn 149, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 312-317

  Trinkaus, Erik ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Homo; Middle Pleistocene; postcrania

Indexed keywords

ARCHEOLOGY; ARM; ARTICLE; GEOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMERUS; MORPHOLOGY; PLEISTOCENE; THICKNESS;

EID: 84866406143     PISSN: 00029483     EISSN: 10968644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22118     Document Type: Article

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