Anthropological study on the human skeletal remains excavated from the Henan province, China.

通过比较调查人类的骨骼残骸从江南地区在中国,这是表明,江南地区是一个可能的原始的弥生时代的移民带来了水稻培养文化第一次从亚洲大陆到日本岛公元前第一年结束。然而,它似乎仍然过早得出结论此刻因为很多un-investigated地区仍然留在中国。为了对江南古人类进行准确的评价，有必要对这些未被调查地区的古人类遗骨进行人类学研究。在过去的四年里（2003 -2006），我们对保存在河南省文化遗址与考古研究所的中国河南省人类骨骼遗骸进行了比较调查。这个地区的新石器时代头骨的骨骼形态与九州北部的弥生人没有很大的不同。另一方面，该地区早汉时期春秋时期的骨骼遗存与弥生时期的殖民者相当接近，例如，在轨道间区域的平整度，更高的面，更高的圆轨道。牙齿特征和非对称的颅骨特征也有相似之处。综上所述，中国河南人（新石器时代末期汉初）与九州北部弥生人在头骨和肢体形态上也基本相似。

Through the comparative investigations on the human skeletal remains from the Jiangnan region in China, it was showed that the Jiangnan region is one of a possible original place of the Yayoi immigrants who brought the rice cultivating culture for the first time from the Asiatic continent to the Japanese island in the end of the first millennium B.C. However, it seem still premature to draw a conclusion at this moment because a lot of un-investigated areas are still remain in the China. It would be necessary to perform the anthropological study on the ancient human skeletal remains in these un-investigated areas for the exact evaluation about the Jiangnan ancient people. During last four years (20003-2006), we made comparative investigations on the human skeletal remains from Henan province in China that is kept in the Cultural Radices and Archaeology Research Institute of Henan Province. The skeletal morphology of the Neolithic skulls from this region did not differ considerably from the Yayoi people of Northern Kyushu. On the other hand, the skeletal remains of Spring and Autumn period Earlier Han period in this region are fairly close to the Yayoi colonists, for example, in the flatness of the interorbital region, higher face, higher and round orbit. The dental characteristics and nonmetrical cranial traits also show resemblance. In conclusions, the people of the Henan province in China (the end of Neolithic period early Han period) also show resemblances basically in their skull and limb morphology in comparison with the Yayoi people in northern Kyushu.