藏族的体质特征

本文共调查藏族145人(男105人,女40人)。年龄均在20岁以上。各项测量均值与不同地区汉族和其他少数民族的聚类分析和大小距离分析的结果表明,藏族的体质特征与华北、西北地区的少数民族和汉族最接近。作者认为藏族是从西藏地区新石器时代居民发展而来,经华北古代居民的不断迁入和混杂、逐渐形成今日的藏族体质类型。

THE PHYSICAL CHARACTERS OF ZANG (TIBETAN) NATIONALITY

A somatological survey on 105 males and 40 females of Zang nationality living in Xizang was carried out by the author in July, 1980. Judging from all nonmetric data from more than 100 males and females, the features of Zang nationality are obviously similar to those of Mongoloid. In addition, all the means of measurements in Zang nationality fall within the range of the variations of those of other minorities living in China, and also fall within the range of Han nationality except the least frontal breadth (see table 6). It is probable that Zang nationality belongs to the physical type of modern Chinese. In view of the cluster graph of kinship matrix for 11 groups of other minorities, Dij values and Cq2 values, the physical characters of Zang nationality are basically similar to those of the minorities and Han nationality living in the provinces of northwest and north China. The author believes that Zang nationality originally evolved from the ancient inhabitants during Neolithic period in Xizang region and later gradually formed the modern appearance by mixing with the ancient inhabitants migrated from the north and northwest region of China.