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2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Anthropological and archaeological study on the origin of Neolithic people in mainland Southeast Asia.

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15405018
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section海外学術
Research Field Anthropology
Research InstitutionSapporo Medical University

Principal Investigator

MATSUMURA Hirofumi  Sapporo Medical University, Faculty of Medicine, Associate Professor, 医学部, 講師 (70209617)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) DODO Yukio  Tohoku University, Faculty of Medicine, Professor, 大学院・医学系研究科, 教授 (50000146)
SHINODA Kenichi  National Science Museum, Department of Anthropology, Chief Curator, 人類研究部, 室長 (30131923)
YONEDA Minoru  National Institute for Environmental Studies, Environmental Chemistry Division, Chief Researcher, 化学環境研究領域, 主任研究員 (30280712)
YAMAGATA Mariko  Waseda University, Faculty of Literature, Associate Professor, 文学学術院, 助教授 (90409582)
SAWADA Jumei  St Marianna University, Faculty of Medicine, Research Associate, 医学部, 助手
Project Period (FY) 2003 – 2005
KeywordsChina / Southeast Asia / Neolithic / Vietnam / Skeletal Morphology / DNA / AMS dating / Cemetery
Research Abstract

An excavations at Hang Cho site in northern Vietnam resulted in the discovery of an early Holocene human skeletons in a relatively good state of preservation. The cultural remains refer to these human remains pre-ceramic Hoabinian period. An AMS radiocarbon date on the tooth sample gave a result of 10,450BP. In debates on the population history of Southeast Asia, it has been repeatedly advocated that Southeast Asia was occupied by an indigenous people akin to present-day Australo-Melanesians prior to an expansion of migrants from North-East Asia into this area. Morphometric analyses were undertaken to test the validity of this hypothesis, and demonstrate that the Hang Cho specimen resembles the Late Pleistocene Australians, suggesting that the Hang Cho skeleton represents a descended member from the Sundaland population during the Late Pleistocene, who may share common ancestry with the present-day Australian aborigines and Melanesians. The excavation of Man Bac site (c.3800BP) in Ninh Binh Province, Northern Vietnam, discovered the large mortuary assemblage. A total of 31 inhumations were recovered during our 2005's excavation. The ratio of children to adults was two to three, indicating unordinary high infant mortality of the Man Bac people. Although a few individuals have the low and wide faces with robust crania common to those of the pre-Neolithic Hoabinhian people, many others bear the long and flat faces. The specimens of the later type have close affinities in the cranial metrics to the Jiangnan people of the Zhou and the Former Han periods in Yangzi Basin, and to the Yayoi migrants in Japan, as well. These findings suggest the existence of initial immigrants from South China, who settled in northern Vietnam. The Man Bac skeletons support the "immigration hypothesis with farming dispersals" in Southeast Asia advocated by Bellwood and others.

  • Research Products

    (20 results)

All 2006 2005

All Journal Article (15 results) Book (5 results)

  • [Journal Article] 骨から見た縄文人のルーツと日本人の起源.2006

    • Author(s)
      百々幸雄
    • Journal Title

      世界平和研究 168

      Pages: 26-33

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The population history of Southeast Asia viewed from morphometric analyses of human skeletal and dental remains.2006

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H.
    • Journal Title

      Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia. (Edited by Marc Oxenham and Nancy Tayles) (Cambridge University Press)

      Pages: 33-58

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Inland Sa Huynh Culture along the Thu Bon River Valley in Central Vietnam.2006

    • Author(s)
      Yamagata M.
    • Journal Title

      Southeast Asian Archaeology 2004 Singapore (Glover, I.C. (ed)) (University Press, Singapore) (in press)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Hudson M
    • Journal Title

      American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127

      Pages: 182-209

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Morphometric analysis of the Late Pleistocene human remains from Moh Khew Cave in Thailand.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Surin P.
    • Journal Title

      Home 56

      Pages: 93-118

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] 林邑の都城,東南アジアの都市と都城2005

    • Author(s)
      山形眞理子
    • Journal Title

      東南アジア考古学会研究報告 3

      Pages: 33-52

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Age discrepancy between molecular biomarker and calcareous foraminifera isolated from same horizons from the Northwest Pacific.2005

    • Author(s)
      Uchida, M., Shibata Y., Ohkushi k., Yoneda M., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Chemical Geology 218

      Pages: 73-89

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Chronology of the Yayoi skeletal remains from the Kanto district,Japan : a preliminary re-evaluation by radiocarbon dating on postcranial materials.2005

    • Author(s)
      Yoneda, M., Saso A., Suzuki R., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Science 113

      Pages: 169-182

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Hudson M.
    • Journal Title

      American Journal of Physical Anthropology 127

      Pages: 182-209

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Morphometric analysis of the Late Pleistocene human remains from Moh Khew Cave in Thailand.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Surin P.
    • Journal Title

      Homo 56

      Pages: 93-118

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Age discrepancy between molecular biomarker and calcareous foraminifera isolated from same horizons from the Northwest Pacific.2005

    • Author(s)
      Uchida, M., Shibata Y., Ohkushi K., Yoneda M., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Chemical Geology 218

      Pages: 73-89

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Chronology of the Yayoi skeletal remains from the Kanto district, Japan : a preliminary re-evaluation by radiocarbon dating on postcranial materials.2005

    • Author(s)
      Yoneda, M., Saso A., Suzuki R., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Anthropological Science 113

      Pages: 169-182

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] The Perak Man : Morphology, Osteometric Analysis and Palaeopathology.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Zuraina M.
    • Journal Title

      The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia. (Zuraina M. ed.) (USM Press, Penang)

      Pages: 51-72

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Bioanthropological Significance of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains in Malaysia.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H.
    • Journal Title

      The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia. (Zuraina M. ed.) (USM Press, Penang)

      Pages: 425-446

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Journal Article] Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam).2005

    • Author(s)
      Demeter F., Bacon AM., Kim T.N., Long VT., Duringer P., Rousse S., Coppens Y., Matsumura H., Dodo Y., et al.
    • Journal Title

      Journal of Human Evolution 48

      Pages: 393-402

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
  • [Book] The population history of Southeast Asia viewed from morphometric analyses of human skeletal and dental remains.Bioarchaeology of Southeast Asia.Edited by Marc Oxenham and Nancy Tayles.2006

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H
    • Total Pages
      33-58
    • Publisher
      Cambridge University Press
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Inland Sa Huynh Culture along the Thu Bon River Valley in Central Vietnam.Glover,I.C.(ed)Southeast Asian Archaeology 20042006

    • Author(s)
      Yamagata M
    • Publisher
      Singapore Universtiy Press,Singapore
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] The Perak Man : Morphology,Osteometric Analysis and Palaeopathology.In : The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia.Zuraina M.ed.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H., Zuraina M
    • Total Pages
      51-72
    • Publisher
      USM Press,Penang
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Bioanthropological Significance of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains in Malaysia.In : The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia.2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H.
    • Total Pages
      425-446
    • Publisher
      USM Press,Penang
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
  • [Book] Bioanthropological Significance of Prehistoric Human Skeletal Remains in Malaysia.In : The Perak Man and Other Prehistoric Skeletons of Malaysia.Zuraina M.ed2005

    • Author(s)
      Matsumura H.
    • Total Pages
      425-446
    • Publisher
      USM Press,Penang
    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より

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Published: 2007-12-13  

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