Journal article
Concordance of cranial and dental morphological traits and evidence for endogamy in ancient Egypt
Abstract
A biological affinities study based on frequencies of cranial nonmetric traits in skeletal samples from three cemeteries at predynastic Naqada, Egypt, confirms the results of a recent nonmetric dental morphological analysis. Both cranial and dental traits analyses indicate that the individuals buried in a cemetery characterized archaeologically as high status are significantly different from individuals buried in two other, apparently nonelite …
Authors
Prowse TL; Lovell NC
Journal
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Vol. 101, No. 2, pp. 237–246
Publisher
Wiley
Publication Date
October 1996
DOI
10.1002/(sici)1096-8644(199610)101:2<237::aid-ajpa8>3.0.co;2-z
ISSN
0002-9483