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1 - Defining an Anthropological Biohistorical Research Agenda: The History, Scale, and Scope of an Emerging Discipline

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

Christopher M. Stojanowski
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Arizona State University
William N. Duncan
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East Tennessee State University
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
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Print publication year: 2017

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