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Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Remains from Easter Island
An archaeological expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific was organized and financed by Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian anthropologist of Kon-Tiki fame, in 1955-1956. Although Professor Murrill was not a member of the expedition, he was asked to st.
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Minneapolis :
University of Minnesota Press,
1968.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- I. INTRODUCTION; II. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE CRANIA; III. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE POSTCRANIA; IV. THE ESTIMATION OF STATURE; V. PATHOLOGY; VI. CLIMATE, WATER, SOIL, AND DIET; VII. CRANIAL AND POSTCRANIAL COMPARISONS WITH OTHER STUDIES; VIII. FORMER THEORIES AND A LEGEND; IX. THE VALIDITY OF HEYERDAHL'S THEORY OF THE POPULATING OF POLYNESIA; X. ABO BLOOD GROUP GENE FREQUENCIES; XI. POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EASTER ISLAND; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; INDEX.