Transverse basilar cleft detected in prehistoric Jomon skulls from Japan

Anthropological Science

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 45-50

  Kawakubo, Yoshinori ^a   Dodo, Yukio ^b   Nara, Takashi ^c   Kuraoka, Akio ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Developmental variation; Lateral notch; Nonmetric cranial trait; Occipital basilar part; Population study

Indexed keywords

EID: 84899628401     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: 13488570     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.131225     Document Type: Article

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