Iwo Eleru's place among Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene populations of North and East Africa

Journal of Human Evolution

Volumn 75, Issue , 2014, Pages 80-89

  Stojanowski, Christopher M ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Craniometrics; Human variation; Population history

Indexed keywords

CRANIUM; FOSSIL RECORD; HOLOCENE; MORPHOLOGY; NEANDERTHAL; PLEISTOCENE; POPULATION STRUCTURE; SURVIVAL;

EAST AFRICA; NIGERIA; NORTH AFRICA;

AFRICA; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; CEPHALOMETRY; EVOLUTION; FOSSIL; HUMAN; MALE; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SKULL;

AFRICA, EASTERN; AFRICA, NORTHERN; ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; CEPHALOMETRY; FOSSILS; HUMANS; MALE; SKULL;

EID: 84907299347     PISSN: 00472484     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2014.02.018     Document Type: Article

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