Osteometric sex determination of burned human skeletal remains
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Bioarchaeology: Scientific Studies of Archaeological Human Skeletal Remains
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1752-928X
DOI: 10.1016/j.jflm.2013.07.003