Population history of northern Vietnamese inferred from nonmetric cranial trait variation

Anthropological Science

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 157-165

  Hanihara, Tsunehiko ^a   Matsumura, Hirofumi ^b   Kawakubo, Yoshinori ^c   Nguyen, Lan Coung ^d   Nguyen, Kim Thuy ^d   Oxenham, Marc F ^e   Dodo, Yukio ^f  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Vietnamese Institute of Archaeology   (Viet Nam)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Australia; East Southeast Asia; Prehistoric northern Vietnam; Regional continuity model; Two layer model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867919004     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.110909     Document Type: Article

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