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The Measures of Man

Methodologies in Biological Anthropology

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780873657822

Publication Date: 12/01/2004

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696 pages

49 halftones, 120 tables, 3 maps, 30 line illustrations

Peabody Museum Press

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This Festschrift in honor of William W. Howells demonstrates the vitality and methodological diversity that existed in the field of biological anthropology in the 1970s.

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