Estimation of skeletal adult age distribution of Okhotsk people in northern Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 103-113

  Nagaoka, Tomohito ^a   Ishida, Hajime ^b   Shimoda, Yasushi ^b   Sunagawa, Masanobu ^b   Amano, Tetsuya ^c   Ono, Hiroko ^c   Hirata, Kazuaki ^a  

^a ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^c HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Age at death; Auricular surface; Bayesian theorem; Hunter gatherer; Okhotsk

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867905890     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.1107311     Document Type: Article

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