U.S.-China Cooperative Research: Craniofacial Form in Relation to Prehistoric and Modern Populations in Asia

中美合作研究：与亚洲史前和现代人群相关的颅面形态

• 批准号: 9107991
• 负责人: C. Loring Brace
• 金额: $ 1.57万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1991
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1991-12-15 至 1992-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9107991&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: U.S.; China; Cooperative; Research; Craniofacial

The objective of the proposed cooperative project is to test the morphological relationships between the prehistoric and modern populations in the various parts of China. The intent is to see whether the craniofacial morphology of regionally identified modern Chinese populations differs to the same -- or to a greater or lesser -- degree as modern Chinese in a given area differ from their Neolithic antecedents in the same as well as in other parts of China. Coordinated with the historical and archaeological record of population movements from one part of China to another, compared with previously collected data from past and present European populations, and considered in the perspective of data to be gathered on Amerindian samples, this should give a scale for measuring the rate of non-adaptive morphological change through time. Ultimately this will allow the investigators to say just how long it has taken for the various differences between the major regional populations of Homo sapiens to have developed. This project involves collaboration with the Chinese Institute of Archaeology where the collections are housed. This collaboration is critical to the success of the project and could yield a longer term collaborative approach to studying other Chinese collections which have been largely unavailable to US scientists.

拟议合作项目的目的是测试中国各地史前和现代人群之间的形态关系。 其目的是了解特定地区的现代中国人的颅面形态是否与特定地区的现代中国人与同一地区以及中国其他地区的新石器时代先民的差异相同或或多或少。 结合人口从中国一个地区迁移到另一个地区的历史和考古记录，与之前收集的过去和现在欧洲人口的数据进行比较，并从美洲印第安人样本收集的数据的角度考虑，这应该给出一个衡量非适应性形态随时间变化率的尺度。 最终，这将使研究人员能够确定智人主要区域人群之间的各种差异到底需要多长时间才形成。 该项目涉及与收藏藏品的中国考古研究所的合作。 这种合作对于该项目的成功至关重要，并且可以产生一种长期合作方法来研究美国科学家基本上无法获得的其他中国收藏品。