Marriage Patterns in an Archaic Population
Author: Brenda Valerie Elkins Kennedy
Publisher: University of Ottawa Press
Published: 1981-01-01
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1772820989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study is based on the premise that marriage patterns determine the composition of the adult segment of hunter-gatherer groups, and that the composition is reflected in the expression of osteological traits within and between sexes. Analysis of metric and non-metric traits in adult skeletons from Locus II of the Port au Choix3 site suggest the practice of exogamy coupled with a virilocal post-nuptial marriage pattern.