Trepanations and perforated crania from iron age south Siberia: An exercise in differential diagnosis

Trepanation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 209-221

  Murphy, Eileen M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ante mortem trepanation; Aymyrlyg; Iron age; Post mortem cranial incision; Siberia

Indexed keywords

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DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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