Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book
Author Murrill, Rupert Ivan

Title Cranial and Postcranial Skeletal Remains from Easter Island
Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 1968

Copies

Description 1 online resource (114 pages)
Contents I. INTRODUCTION; II. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE CRANIA; III. METRICAL AND MORPHOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS OF THE POSTCRANIA; IV. THE ESTIMATION OF STATURE; V. PATHOLOGY; VI. CLIMATE, WATER, SOIL, AND DIET; VII. CRANIAL AND POSTCRANIAL COMPARISONS WITH OTHER STUDIES; VIII. FORMER THEORIES AND A LEGEND; IX. THE VALIDITY OF HEYERDAHL'S THEORY OF THE POPULATING OF POLYNESIA; X. ABO BLOOD GROUP GENE FREQUENCIES; XI. POLYNESIAN MIGRATIONS WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO EASTER ISLAND; APPENDICES; REFERENCES; INDEX
Summary An archaeological expedition to Easter Island and the East Pacific was organized and financed by Thor Heyerdahl, the Norwegian anthropologist of Kon-Tiki fame, in 1955-1956. Although Professor Murrill was not a member of the expedition, he was asked to st
Bibliography Bibliography: p. 93-97
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Craniology -- Easter Island
Craniology
Easter Island
Form Electronic book
LC no. 67010609
ISBN 9780816663798
0816663793