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Skeletal sex and gender in Merovingian mortuary archaeology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bonnie Effros
Bonnie Effros*
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Department of Historical Studies, Peck Hall, Box 1454, Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, Edwardsville IL 62026, USA. beffros@siue.edu
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Merovingian archaeologygenderDNA analysisosteologycemeteries
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Antiquity , Volume 74 , Issue 285 , September 2000 , pp. 632 - 639
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