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Twenty-five thousand-year-old triple burial from Dolní Vĕstonice: an ice-age family?
American journal of physical anthropology - 1 Jan 1997
Alt K W, Pichler S, Vach W, Klíma B, Vlcek E, Sedlmeier J
Abstract excerpt
In 1986 a paleolithic triple burial was discovered near Dolní Vĕstonice (Czech Republic). The occurrence of anatomic variants in all three skeletons gave rise to speculations that the buried individuals may have been closely related. To test this hypothesis the skeletons were submitted to a systematic kinship analysis based on odontologic and other non-metric traits. Statistical tests showed that the coincident...
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