从人骨中提取遗传基因

日本人类遗传研究部门从浦和市出土的约6千年前绳文时代前期人骨中,提取了遗传基因断片,与现代人资料对比,发现有1例与东南亚系的某人的基因断片完全相同。从骨中提取遗传基因比较困难。这项成就在世界尚属罕见。研究人员从5具人骨中提取了遗传基因,在约1克的骨片上加入盐酸,从这些骨骼样品中溶解出入的线粒体细胞内的小器官的遗传基因,并通过其他酶进     

山东鲁中南地区周-汉代人骨研究

本文对 11例出土于山东省鲁中南地区保存较好的周 -汉代颅骨进行测量研究。在颅、面部测量特征的比较上 ,这批头骨与鲁北地区同时代头骨特征类似 ,都属于东亚蒙古人种类型。与周邻地区古代人群的聚类分析与主成分分析结果表明 ,鲁中南周 -汉代组人群与黄河流域古代类群的亲缘关系比与华南组的更接近 ,这组人群与西日本弥生人接近的程度明显大于与绳文人接近的程度。本研究支持在现代日本人的起源中有源自中国大陆特别是华北东部地区的因素。     

广西俫人的体质特征

本文报告对广西隆林各族自治县境内的俫人成年居民111人 (男性60人,女性51人) 进行的活体调查结果。结果表明,俫人体质特征属中华民族的华南类型,与广西壮族及海南岛黎族有比较接近的亲缘关系。     

淇县宋庄东周墓殉人颅骨的形态学

河南省鹤壁市的淇县宋庄东周墓地的多座墓葬不仅出土大量青铜礼乐器和陶器,而且存在人殉现象,宋庄墓地的发现为探讨东周时期豫北地区考古学文化与政治格局提供了重要线索。为了分析宋庄墓地东周墓葬人殉的种系来源,本文对其中保存较好的7例女性人殉颅骨进行了形态学分析。淇县宋庄组与仰韶文化的宝鸡组和大汶口、龙山文化的呈子组均具有较大相似性,与青铜时代的毛饮合并B组、西村周组和双楼组也较为接近。初步认为,淇县宋庄女性人殉与东周时期的豫北和晋地传统居民在体质特征存在一定的区别,而与周人畿内和郑韩故城及其以西以北地区的中原文化居民有更多的亲缘关系。     

湖北长阳青铜时代人骨的研究

作者观察和测量了长阳深潭湾遗址出土的青铜时代人骨的各部特征,并与其他地区不同时代或同一时代的人骨特征进行比较。文章认为长阳青铜时代居民的颅骨性状与长江南部地区新石器时代的或近代的颅骨较相似,可以代表长江中游地区青铜时代居民的体征类型。他们的最近祖先可能是大溪文化的主人。     

日本人来自何方？

踏上日本国土,我的印象之一是:除了欧化的服饰,不同的语言外,眼前一片和我们一样脸庞、黄色皮肤的熟悉的人群。但在日本逗留一段时间和旅行各地后,我感到,这是与大陆人有着某种差异,他们之间也有明显差别的人群。日本人虽统称为大和民族,却象是一个不同人群的混合体。什么是日本人?日本人起源于何处?何时,从何地,怎样迁移定居在亚洲东隅的日本列岛的?这是很多人感兴趣的问题。日本人起源研究的先驱日本人起源的研究始于江户时代的新井白石、木     

广西壮族颅骨的测量与研究

本文以来源于壮族居民世代聚居地区,生前资料比较可靠的150例颅骨为材料并用多因素分析等6方法探索壮族的体质特征、人种地位、地区类型及可能的起源。结果表明,壮族居民属黄色人种南亚类型,中华民族的华南,与柳江人,Chen皮岩人有最接近的亲缘关系。     

中国新石器时代和现代居民的时代变化和地理变异——颅骨测量性状的统计分析研究

本文研究了中国新石器时代到现代人类颅骨主要测量性状的时代变化,以及这两个时代中的地理变异。聚类分析、因子分析、判别分析和方差分析的结果显示在此期间的时代变化顺着变小的趋势;在新石器时代和现代,北方居民比南方居民有更大的上面高、鼻高和眶高。北方和南方两支居民沿着共同的方向变化,同时保持原有的地理差异,这种平行现象为探讨此期间时代变化的动力可能提供一部分线索。     

内蒙古林西县井沟子遗址西区墓地人骨研究

本文对内蒙古林西县井沟子遗址西区墓地出土的春秋—战国时期的颅骨进行了人类学的考察,该组颅骨在种族特征上可归入现代亚洲蒙古人种中的北亚人种范围。在若干古代和现代对比组中,井沟子组古代居民的体质特征与汉代扎赉诺尔组、近代蒙古组最为接近。     

内蒙古和林格尔县将军沟墓地人骨研究

本文对内蒙古和林格尔县将军沟墓地出土的14例战国中晚期的颅骨(男性11例,女性3例)进行了人类学的观察和测量,认为该组颅骨在种族特征上可归入现代亚洲蒙古人种中的东亚人种范围。在若干古代和现代对比组中,将军沟组古代居民的体质特征与毛饮合并A组、近代华北组最为接近。     

Temporal craniometric changes from the Jomon to the Modern period in western Japan

Temporal changes in morphometric features of human cranial remains from the late Jomon period (1500 B.C.–300 B.C.) to the Modern period (1900–1950 A.D.) in western Japan are examined. The results of univariate and multivariate analysis indicate that the Yayoi people (300 B.C.–300 A.D.), characterized by high faces and tall stature, show morphological discontinuity with the earlier Jomon people, who exhibit lower faces and shorter stature. This discontinuity contrasts with the relatively continuous changes among populations after the Yayoi. Comparing these changes with those documented in the Kanto region of eastern Japan indicates there are significant regional differences in the degree and rate of transformation in certain cranial features, especially facial height, between the two regions. Differences in cranial shape between the two regions become apparent during the Yayoi period and these differences tend to diminish thereafter. The most plausible explanation for these observed changes is the introduction of new genes, coinciding with the arrival of new immigrants from the Asian continent in the northern Kyushu-Yamaguchi region at the beginning of the Yayoi period. Further testing of this hypothesis will be necessary before definitive conclusions can be reached regarding the appearance of modern Japanese. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.     

Japanese tooth size: past and present

Mesial-distal and buccal-lingual crown measurements were made on male and female samples of recent Japanese teeth from three locations, Fukuoka, Kyoto, and Tokyo, and for Hokkaido Ainu and Koreans. Similar data were collected for prehistoric Middle-to-Late Jomon Japanese and from Yayoi specimens representing the first agriculturalists to appear in Japan. From a tooth-by-tooth comparison of cross-sectional areas, it was shown that the modern Japanese samples did not differ from one part of Japan to another. Korean tooth size also is not significantly different from Japanese, while Ainu have the smallest teeth recorded in Asia. The Yayoi who brought rice to Japan about 300 B.C. came in with teeth that were the same size as Chinese Neolithic teeth. They encountered a resident Jomon population whose teeth were 10% smaller. From tooth size measures alone, it is most economical to suggest that, if the rates of reduction observed elsewhere in the world applied in Japan, the recent Ainu would best be regarded as the direct descendants of the Jomon, while the modern Japanese are the results of in situ reduction from the incoming Yayoi. Other aspects of craniofacial morphology suggest that some Jomon was incorporated by the Yayoi. The modern Japanese, then, while predominantly derived from the Yayoi, would include a Jomon component.     

辽宁本溪青铜时代人骨

本文记述了辽宁本溪市庙后山出土的青铜时代颅骨的主要特征,并与其他地区青铜时代的和现代的颅骨特征进行比较,讨论了我国东北地区青铜时代居民与其邻近地区居民体质特征之间的关系。     

Cranial thickness of modern and neolithic populations in Japan

Cranial vault thicknesses were measured directly with a spreading caliper at six anatomical reference points in the modern Japanese and Neolithic Jomon series. Because no statistically significant correlation was found between age and cranial thickness in our study, the age-related change in thickness was not indicated in the modern Japanese. The cranial thicknesses at the frontal and parietal eminences were significantly greater in the female than in the male in modern Japanese. In the male series the cranial thickness of the Neolithic Jomon was significantly greater than that of modern Japanese. It is suggested that the temporal change that has occurred in Japan during the last 2000 years is consistent with the trend toward decreasing cranial thickness during the last 10,000 years in many parts of the world.     

Variation in limb proportions between Jomon foragers and Yayoi agriculturalists from prehistoric Japan

Variation in limb proportions between prehistoric Jomon and Yayoi people of Japan are explored by this study. Jomon people were the descendents of Pleistocene nomads who migrated to the Japanese Islands around 30,000 yBP. Phenotypic and genotypic evidence indicates that Yayoi people were recent migrants to Japan from continental Northeast Asia who likely interbred with Jomon foragers. Limb proportions of Jomon and Yayoi people were compared using RMA regression and "Quick-Test" calculations to investigate relative variability between these two groups. Cluster and principal components analyses were performed on size-standardized limb lengths and used to compare Jomon and Yayoi people with other groups from various climatic zones. Elongated distal relative to proximal limb lengths were observed among Jomon compared to Yayoi people. Jomon limb proportions were similar to human groups from temperate/tropical climates at lower latitudes, while Yayoi limb proportions more closely resemble groups from colder climates at higher latitudes. Limb proportional similarities with groups from warmer environments among Jomon foragers likely reflect morphological changes following Pleistocene colonization of the Japanese Islands. Cold-derived limb proportions among the Yayoi people likely indicate retention of these traits following comparatively recent migrations to the Japanese Islands. Changes in limb proportions experienced by Jomon foragers and retention of cold-derived limb proportions among Yayoi people conform to previous findings that report changes in these proportions following long-standing evolution in a specific environment.     

中国新石器时代居民体质类型及其承继关系

运用数理统计方法把我国新石器时代居民分为华南、华北两大类群,其中华北类群又可分为三个小类群。在人类发展过程中,南、北两群间及华北各类群间都发生过血缘混杂的过程。运用数理统计方法也可把我国旧石器晚期人类——山顶洞人和柳江人在体质特征上与我国新石器时代各组居民明显地区别开来。山顶洞人和柳江人分别代表我国旧石器晚期南北两个不同的地方类型。我国新石器时代居民的所谓澳大利亚—尼格罗人种或南亚人种特点可以追溯到我国旧石器时代晚期人类——柳江人、山顶洞人,这些特点是我国新石器时代组人类固有的特点,只不过在不同的类群中表现有所差异而已。     

Increasing breadth of the frontal lobe but decreasing height of the human brain between two Chinese samples from a Neolithic site and from living humans

Morphological observation and measurements of endocasts have played a vital role in research on the evolution of the human brain. However, endocasts have never been used to investigate how the human brain has evolved since the Neolithic period. We investigated the evolution of the human brain during the Holocene by comparing virtual endocasts from Beiqian site (a Neolithic Chinese site) and a sample of Chinese modern‐day humans. Standardized measurements and indices were taken to provide quantification of the overall endocast shape, including the length, breadth, height, frontal breadth, and the ratio of frontal breadth to breadth, as well as the cranial capacity. We found that the height of the endocasts and cranial capacity have decreased between our two samples, whereas the frontal breadth and sexual dimorphism have increased. We argue that these changes can be caused by random genetic mutation and epigenetic change in response to changes in the environment. Am J Phys Anthropol 154:94–103, 2014. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

A population genetic study on the transition from Jomon people to Yayoi people

In the study on the origin of Japanese, one of main unsolved problems is the transition from the Jomon people to the Yayoi people. The main difficulty in solving this problem has been the lack of suitable skeletal materials belonging to the time between the two periods, i.e. the final Jomon and the early Yayoi Periods. Therefore, we know few details of the transition period. It is important to know who carried out a drastic change of the Yayoi culture during this transitional period, i.e. the native Jomon people or the immigrant people. By introducing population genetic models, we show that a view that the immigrant people had a significant genetic contribution to the origin of Japanese is compatible with results from anthropological and archeological studies. This result implies that the immigrant people were mainly responsible for the drastic cultural change during the transitional period.     

Dimensional variation in the proximal ulna: evaluation of a metric method for sex assessment

We examined nutritional and developmental instability in prehistoric Japan, using data from 49 individuals across 13 archaeological sites. Hypoplasia incidence was used as a measure of nutritional stress, and fluctuating asymmetry (of upper facial breath, orbital breadth, and orbital height) as an indirect assessment of developmental instability. Abundant resources due to a stable climate during the Middle Jomon (5,000-3,000 BP) encouraged population growth, which led to regional cultural homogeneity and complexity. A population crash on Honshu in the Late/Final Jomon (roughly 4,000-2,000 BP) led to regionally divergent subsistence economies and settlement patterns. We find that the nutritional stress was consistent between periods, but developmental instability (DI) decreased in the Late/Final Jomon. While the DI values were not statistically significant, the higher values for Middle Jomon may result from sedentism, social stratification, and differential access to resources. On Hokkaido, Jomon culture persisted until the Okhotsk period (1,000-600 BP), marked by the arrival of immigrants from Sakhalin. Nutritional stress was consistent between Middle and Late/Final Jomon, but DI increased in the Late/Final. Nutritional and developmental instability decreased from Late/Final to Okhotsk, suggesting a positive immigrant effect. We expected to find an association between stress markers due to the synergistic relationship between nutrition and pathology. The data support this hypothesis, but only one finding was statistically significant. While high critical values from small sample sizes place limits on the significance of our results, we find that the impact of environmental and cultural change to prehistoric Japanese populations was minimal.