1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Anthropological reexamination of Nansei Islanders skeletal remains
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05640805
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
人類学(含生理人類学)
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| Research Institution | Tohoku University (1994)
Sapporo Medical University (1993) |
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Principal Investigator |
DODO Yukio Tohoku University School of Medicine Professor, 医学部, 教授 (50000146)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
DOI Naomi Ryukyu University Faculty of Medicine Assoc.Professor, 医学部, 助教授 (30128053)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1993 – 1994
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| Keywords | Cranium / Measurement / Nonmetric trait / Facial flatness / Ryukyu / Ainu / Physical anthropology / 形質人類学 |
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| Research Abstract |
We investigated metric and nonmetric characteristics on 140,122 and 63 crania of Amami, Okinawa and Sakishima Islandesrs. Results of facial flatness measurements revealed the crania of Okinawa Islandesrs had very flat faces comparable to those of immigrant Yayoi and Kofun people. In this respect, not as usually considered, Okinawans are very different from Ainus and Jomons whoes facial skeletons show prominent configuration, Moreover, the incidence pattern of nonmetric cranial traits was quite different between Okinawans and Ainus or Jomons. From these results we asserted the hypothesis of close affinity between Okinawans and Ainus to be carefully reconsidered.
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