Prehistoric trepanations in Russia: Ritual or surgical?

Trepanation

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 163-174

  Mednikova, Maria ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ARCHAEOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Funeral rites; Geographical and spatial distributions of perforated crania; Ritual or therapeutic purposes of trepanning; Russia

Indexed keywords

EID: 85050728971     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: None     Document Type: Chapter

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