Minatogawa hominid fossils and the evolution of Late Pleistocene humans in East Asia
Minatogawa hominid fossils and the evolution of Late Pleistocene humans in East Asia
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DOI：
10.1537/ase.106.supplement_27
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发表时间：
1998-01-01
影响因子：
0.7
通讯作者：
Ohyama, S
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作者：
Baba, H;Narasaki, S;Ohyama, S
为了了解日本人的起源，本文对东亚晚更新世人类化石的头骨形态进行了研究。在描述了目前最完整的日本更新世人类头骨化石Minatogawa 1之后，提出了对证据的功能解释。Minatogawa 1头骨显示出许多古代特征，主要与咀嚼适应有关。当将Minatogawa 1头骨与东亚和东南亚的其他人类头骨化石进行比较时，发现它的形态特征与爪哇的Wadjak 1头骨比与中国周口店上洞和柳江头骨更接近。这表明晚更新世中国与日本列岛之间没有大规模的人类迁徙。
In order to understand the origins of Japanese people, this paper deals with the skull morphology of Late Pleistocene human fossils in Eastern Asia. After the Minatogawa 1 skull, the most complete Japanese Pleistocene fossil human skull now available, is described, a functional interpretation of the evidence is presented. The Minatogawa 1 skull exhibits many archaic features, which mainly relate to masticatory adaptation. When the Minatogawa 1 skull is compared with other fossil human skulls in East and Southeast Asia, it is found to exhibit morphological features slightly closer to the Wadjak 1 skull in Java than to the Zhoukoudian Upper Cave and Liujiang skulls in China. This suggests that there were no major human migrations between China and Japanese Islands in Late Pleistocene.