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10 - The Probabilistic Basis for Identifying Individuals in Biohistorical Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 January 2017

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Lyle W. Konigsberg  and
Lee Meadows Jantz
Edited by
Christopher M. Stojanowski  and
William N. Duncan
Christopher M. Stojanowski
Affiliation:
Arizona State University
William N. Duncan
Affiliation:
East Tennessee State University
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Studies in Forensic Biohistory
Anthropological Perspectives
 , pp. 213 - 236
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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