Metrical and nonmetrical analyses of modern female crania in the northwestern Kyushu area

Anthropological Science

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 147-159

  Watanabe, Tomohide ^a   Saiki, Kazunobu ^a   Okamoto, Keishi ^a   Wakebe, Tetsuaki ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Craniometry; Female; Japanese; Nonmetric cranial trait; Northwestern Kyushu

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAPAN; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SKULL;

EID: 9144265576     PISSN: 09187960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1537/ase.00100     Document Type: Article

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