Interpreting biological diversity in South Asian prehistory: Early Holocene population affinities and subsistence adaptations

Vertebrate Paleobiology and Paleoanthropology

Volumn , Issue 9781402055614, 2007, Pages 271-296

  Lukacs, John R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological affinity; Dental morphology; Dental pathology; Ganga plain; Physical anthropology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887819051     PISSN: 18779077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-5562-5_12     Document Type: Chapter

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