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Familial segregation in the iron age community of Alfedena, Abruzzo, Italy, based on osteodental trait analysis

✍ Scribed by L. Bondioli; R. S. Corruccini; R. Macchiarelli

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 1986
Tongue: English
Weight: 714 KB
Volume: 71
Category: Article
ISSN: 0002-9483
DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.1330710402

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✦ Synopsis

Numerous authors have studied human cemetery remains with an eye toward identifying different socially stratified ethnic or kinship groups within the same population. The interments of the protohistoric graveyard of Alfedena, Abruzzo, Italy, show recurrent organization in separate structures, suggesting to several involved archaeologists that these structures express family groups and/or differences in social function of the occupants. This has induced us to analyze the possible biological implications of specific

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