The Physical Anthropology of the St. Joseph, Michigan Ossuary

Author

Mark Lundell, Western Michigan University

Date of Defense

Summer 7-1976

Department

Biological Sciences

Keywords

North American history

Abstract

The following paper is a study of twenty-two American aborigines discovered in an ossuary in January, 1973, near St. Joseph, Michigan. The population consisted of: eleven adults, four females, five males, and two sex indeterminates; three adolescents; four children; and four age and sex indeterminate. Two C¹⁴ dates of A.D. 350 ± 75 and A.D. 290 ± 50 were derived by the DICAR laboratory, Cleveland, Ohio

Recommended Citation

Lundell, Mark, "The Physical Anthropology of the St. Joseph, Michigan Ossuary" (1976). Honors Theses. 214.
https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/honors_theses/214

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