11,000 years of craniofacial and mandibular variation in Lower Nubia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 6, Issue , 2016, Pages

  Galland, Manon ^a,b   Van Gerven, Denis P ^c   Von Cramon Taubadel, Noreen ^d   Pinhasi, Ron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; HOLOCENE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MANDIBLE; MESOLITHIC; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANATOMIC MODEL; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; EGYPT; FACIAL BONE; FEMALE; FOSSIL; HISTORY; MALE; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL; SUDAN;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; EGYPT; FACIAL BONES; FEMALE; FOSSILS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MODELS, ANATOMIC; PALEONTOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SKULL; SUDAN;

EID: 84981268393     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep31040     Document Type: Article

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