Morphology and function of the lumbar spine of the Kebara 2 Neandertal
โ Scribed by Ella Been; Smadar Peleg; Assaf Marom; Alon Barash
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 342 KB
- Volume
- 142
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0002-9483
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