Anthropological Study of Ancient Human Skeletons in China.

考虑到日本人的起源和身体特征不能仅仅通过研究古代日本人的骨骼来解决，同时还必须涉及对邻国古代骨骼的身体人类学研究，我们从1990年开始调查来自中国的古代人类骨骼。据说弥生文化深受中国和朝鲜半岛文化的影响，特别是中国中部和南部地区。在这些地区，我们一直在研究古代人类骨骼，并将它们与北九州的弥生人的骨骼进行了比较。在中国这些地区出土的人骨并不多，但在山东半岛出土了一些5000 - 2000年前的古人类骨骼。自1989年以来，我们测量了从高松遗址和福卡遗址出土的人类骨骼和牙齿。1992年，我们继续对这些骨骼进行测量，并对这些骨骼的其他特征进行了调查，并在发掘出大量古人类骨骼的新江威格自治州进行了初步调查。在山东半岛，不仅在“大文古骨架”中发现了人工颅骨变形，在“欧因”骨架中也发现了人工颅骨变形，在“高松”和“福卡”骨架中发现了牙齿挖掘。面部高度略高，鼻根平坦，与九州北部弥生人的特征相似，但骨骼质量比弥生人略坚固。虽然山东半岛出土的头骨中存在着九州北部地区未见的拔牙现象，但山东半岛人类骨骼的物理特征与绳纹人并不相似。这些特征在北九州弥生人的牙齿中也可以看到，山东半岛可能是弥生人最可能的海外发源地之一。然而，弥生时代的人类骨骼数量非常少，而且并非所有的身体特征都是相同的，因此我们不能确定山东半岛是海外弥生人的起源地。我们通过对颅骨的测量进行了聚类分析，发现中国古代骨骼属于一个单独的聚类，而这个聚类与弥生人和绳纹人的骨骼有很大的不同。这似乎表明，中国人和日本人之间的身体差异很早就出现了。山东半岛还有大量的古人类骨骼我们尚未调查，因此我们将在合作研究人员的合作下继续明确每个遗址的古人类骨骼特征，并将其与日本古代人类骨骼进行比较。少

Given that the origin and physical character of the Japanese people can not be solved only by studying the skeletons of the ancient Japanese people but must also involve physical anthropological studies of the ancient skeletons of the neighboring countries at the same time, we have investigated ancient human skeletons from China since 1990. It is said that the Yayoi Culture was greatly influenced by the cultures in China and the Korean Peninsula, in particular the central and southern areas of China. In these areas, we have been investigating ancient human skeletons and have compared them to those of the Yayoi People in North Kyushu. Not many human bone have been excavated from these areas in China, but from the Shantung Peninsula a number of ancient human skeletons from 5,000-2,000 years ago have been excavated. Since 1989, we have measured human skeletons and teeth excavated from the Goson site and Fuka site. In 1992, we continued to measure them and investigate other features of the … More se bones, and also conducted a preliminary investigation in the Hsinchiang Wigle Dominion where a large number of ancient human skeletons have been excavated.On the Shantung Peninsula, artificial cranial deformation was found not only in "Daibunko skeleton" but also in "Oin" and tooth excavation was found in "Goson" and "Fuka" skeleton. The facial height was slightly high and the nasal root was flat, which are similar to the features of Yayoi people in North Kyushu, but the skeleton quality was slightly solider than that of the Yayoi people. Although tooth extraction, which was not observed in North Kyushu, existed in the crania excavated on the Shantung Peninsula, the physical features of the human skeletons from Shantung Peninsula were not similar to those of the Jomon people. These features were also seen in teeth were common to those of the North Kyushu Yayoi, the Shantung Peninsula may be among the most probable site of origin of the Yayoi people from overseas. However, the amount of human skeletons from the Yayoi period is extremely small and not all physical features are held in common, so we cannot determine that Shantung Peninsula is the origin site of the Yayoi people from overseas.We conducted a cluster analysis using measurements of the crania, and ancient Chinese skeletons constituted one cluster on its own while this cluster differed greatly from those of the Yayoi and Jomon people. This seems to suggest the possibility that physical differentiation between the Chinese and Japanese people occurred quite early.There are still a large number of ancient human skeletons from the Shantung Peninsula we have not investigated yet, so we will continue t clarity the features of ancient human skeletons at eachsite with the cooperation of collaboration researchers and compare them with ancient Japanese huma skeletons. Less