新疆楼兰城郊古墓人骨人类学特征的研究

本文对新疆罗布泊楼兰古城址东郊古墓人头骨的人类学特征进行了研究。在全部6具头骨中,有5具人类学特征接近地中海人种印度—阿富汗类型,1具头骨具有明显蒙古人种特征。

ANTHROPOLOGICAL CHARACTERS OF THE HUMAN CRANIA FROM LOULAN SITE, XINJIANG

Six skulls from an ancient cemetery at Loulan site in 1980 are studied in this paper. The age of this cemetery, according to C14 dating, is about 2000 B. P. Among six ob-served skulls four belong to males and two females.The morphological observation and measurements show that five skulls have Euro-poid's characters. These skulls mainly represent the natives of Europoid in the region, and their physical characters are mostly similar to that of Indo-Afghan pattern. One Mongoloid cranium is found in the cemetery. It is suggested that the ethnic elements of Loulan Kingdom did not consist of single race.In the comparison with other ancient cranial series of Central Asia, Loulan's crania are more similar to that of Saka in Pamir morphologically, whereas, they are not homo-geneous with the brachycephalic Saka-Wusun's crania in Tianshan-Alei and Zhaosu and are close to that of Pamir's Saka in anthropological relationship. These Loulan's natives had exchanged with the population of Han Dynasty in culture from the archaeo-logic evidences.