2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
A biological anthropological study on the adaptation strategy to agriculture in the Neolithic Yangtze River delta.
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26440259
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Physical anthropology
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| Research Institution | Tottori University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha) |
TAKAMUKU HIROFUMI 土井ヶ浜遺跡人類学ミュージアム, 学芸員 (10759418)
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| Research Collaborator |
YONEMOTO SHIORI
KAWAKUBO YOSHINORI
TOMITA HIROTAKA
MURAMATSU HIRONA
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| Project Period (FY) |
2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
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| Keywords | 水田稲作 / 古人骨 / 広富林遺跡 / 古病理学 / 日本人の起源 / 崧沢文化 / 良渚文化 / 結核 |
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
Neolithic human skeletal remains were cleaned and arranged at the Guangfulin site in Shanghai, and they accumulated 183 individuals. Results showed higher mortality in young adult females. The morphological distances based on cranial measurements indicated that the Neolithic Guangfulin assemblage approximates with the Neolithic Weidun but aparted from the Neolithic Hemudu (the both were geographically closed to the Guangfulin site) as well as the Neolithic Huanan groups. The closer relationship of the Neolithic Guangfulin with northern groups did not contradict with the result of Sr isotope analysis for estimating their origin. However, the type of cultural tooth ablation was differed between the both sites of Guangfulin and Weidun, which suggested the complex human history in the Neolithic Yangtze River delta. A case of tuberculosis was observed in a young female, which demonstrated the population scale and density enough for the tubercle bacillus’s survival.
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| Free Research Field |
人類学
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