Early Modern humans and morphological variation in Southeast Asia:Fossil evidence from tam pa ling, laos

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages

  Demeter, Fabrice ^a,b   Shackelford, Laura ^c   Westaway, Kira ^d   Duringer, Philippe ^e   Bacon, Anne Marie ^f   Ponche, Jean Luc ^j   Wu, Xiujie ^g   Sayavongkhamdy, Thongsa ^h   Zhao, Jian Xin ⁱ   Barnes, Lani ^d   Boyon, Marc ^e   Sichanthongtip, Phonephanh ^h   Sénégas, Frank ^f   Karpoff, Anne Marie ^e   Patole Edoumba, Elise ^k   Coppens, Yves ^l   Braga, José ^f,m  

^a Université Diderot Paris 7   (France)

^b Université Pierre et Marie Curie Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^d MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^f CNRS   (France)

^g INSTITUTE OF VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY AND PALEOANTHROPOLOGY   (China)

^h Ministry of Information and Culture   (Laos)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^j UNIVERSITÉ DE STRASBOURG   (France)

^k Muséum d Histoire Naturelle de la Rochelle   (France)

^l l'alimentation et l'Environnement   (France)

^m UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BONE AGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOSSIL HUMAN; GEOMETRY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAOS; MANDIBLE; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MORPHOMETRICS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; FOSSIL; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY;

ANTHROPOLOGY, PHYSICAL; FOSSILS; HUMANS; LAOS; MANDIBLE;

EID: 84928911370     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0121193     Document Type: Article

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