长阳青铜时代与大同北魏朝代人类牙齿的形态变异

本文记述了湖北长阳县深潭湾青铜时代和山西大同市郊北魏朝代两处墓葬遗址出土的人类牙齿形态变异的状况,提供人们对牙齿形态种种变异的认识,探索非测量性牙齿特征在研究种族和人群之间关系中的意义。     

The Bronze-Age Harappans: A re-examination of the skulls in the context of the population concept

The biometric data on 72 usable adult skulls excavated at Harappa and dated ca. 2500-1700 bc have been re-examined in the light of the genetic concept of “population.” The original study of the material considered separately and independently the various samples from locally differentiated cultural deposits, Cemetery R37, Area G, Cemetery H, etc., and used the typologic concept of racial analysis, a traditional method now sterile. One of the major findings of the study, postulating hypothetical original races, was that a varying proportions of different racial “types” constituted each sample. The present analysis is designed, first, to identify the particular population responsible for the growth of the true Harappan culture and, secondly, to define some selected physical characters of the population. Fifteen variables provided statistical evidence that the pooled remains of Cemetery R37 and Area G can be considered as a sufficiently homogeneous Harappan population. Further, in the absence of statistically significant differences in separate measurements, the entire material may be regarded as representing the Bronze-Age Harappans. Accordingly, some selected cranio-facial features of the population have been described.     

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。     

中国古代人类遗骸的骨折病例

本文记述了作者从河南淅川下王岗新石器时代、湖北长阳深潭湾青铜时代、山西朔州汉代及大同市郊北魏时代等遗址收集的骨折骨骼标本的特征。同时还收集一些已发表的有关古代人类骨骼骨折的资料用于对比,为了解我国古代居民的骨折特征和类型,探索古代人类的行为、环境适应性及疾病历史提供重要依据。     

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。