Study on the Face-body Characters, Demography, Diseases and Diet of Kyoto Citizens in Edo-period

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Human skeletal remains for about 630 individuals which were excavated at the old temple burial site of Edo-period in the Fushimi area of Kyoto City, were osteo-archaeologically analysed in order to evaluate the face-body characters, demographicfeatures, diseases and diet of Kyoto citizens in Edo-period. Several findings deserve special mention, as follows. 1) The average statures estimated have been proved very short ; about 158cm and 144cm for adult males and females, respectively. 2) The life expectancies at age O have been calculated very short ; less than 40 years and less than 30 years for the male and female populations, respectively. 3) The very high frequencies of persons with some dental caries affections and with some syphilitic bone-changes have been observed ; 33.5% and more than 30%, respectively. 4) People's diet particularly high in freshwater fish or in C3 plants, terrestrial mammals and marine/freshwater fish, have been speculated