Craniometric analysis of European Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic samples supports discontinuity at the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Brewster, Ciaraán ^a   Meiklejohn, Christopher ^b   Von Cramon Taubadel, Noreen ^c,d   Pinhasi, Ron ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WINNIPEG   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^f TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISCONTINUITY; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MESOLITHIC; MORPHOLOGY; PALEOLITHIC; SAMPLING; STOCHASTICITY;

ARTICLE; CRANIOMETRY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHY; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MESOLITHIC; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; NEOLITHIC; PALEOLITHIC; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CEPHALOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; SKULL;

EUROPE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEPHALOMETRY; DEMOGRAPHY; EUROPE; HUMANS; SKULL;

EID: 84902313300     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5094     Document Type: Article

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