A Study through Skull Morphology On The Diversity Of Holocene African Populations In A Historical Perspective Paperback

Isabelle Ribot

The main objective of the present research is to explore through skull morphology some potential sources of biological diversity within sub-Saharan Africa, such as: geography and especially history, in relation to large-scale population movements (expansion of Bantu-speakers). Therefore, through various statistical analyses, morphological variation was re-evaluated within modern sub-Saharan African populations, using a very large modern human sample and a set of metric variables related to the cranium and mandible. In the same way, morphological patterns through time were also traced, focusing on various Later Stone Age and Iron Age populations, originating in particular from strategic areas of various influences. In Chapter 2 aft

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9781407307732

English

British Archaeological Reports Oxford Ltd

16-Jan-09

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