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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