Morphometric comparisons between crania of late pleistocene homo sapiens from border cave (bc 1), tuinplaas (tp 1) and modern southern african populations

Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 159-162

  Houghton, K ^a   Thackeray, J F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Homo sapiens; Late pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008843529     PISSN: 0035919X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0035919X.2011.626808     Document Type: Article

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