Morphological Variation of Crania of the Medieval Period Japanese

• Nagaoka Tomohito

  Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine

• Shizushima Akio

  Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry at Matsudo

• Sawada Junmei

  Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine

• Hirata Kazuaki

  Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 中世日本人の頭蓋形態の変異
• チュウセイ ニホンジン ノ ズガイ ケイタイ ノ ヘンイ

Abstract

This study measured the medieval crania from the Kanto District in Japan and compared the measurements with those of the preceding studies for the purpose of clarifying the morphological variation within several medieval populations in the Kanto District and between populations from the Kanto and northern Kyushu-Yamaguchi Districts. The materials utilized in this study consist of human skeletal remains from the Yuigahama-minami (individual burials), Chusei-Shudan-Bochi, Gokurakuji sites in the Kamakura city, the Kanto District and from the Kajibashi and Marunouchi sites in the Tokyo metropolis, the Kanto District. Statistical comparisons are made with data available in the literature on population samples of the Yuigahama-minami (multiple burials) and Zaimokuza sites in the Kamakura city, the Kanto District and of the Yoshimohama in the Shimonoseki city, the northern Kyushu-Yamaguchi District. The result is that all the medieval populations have more dolichocephalic, chamaeprosopic, and alveolar-protrusive crania than the samples of other periods. The intra-regional comparisons of the medieval crania indicate that the samples of the Kanto District cannot be regarded as homogeneous: the specific features of the medieval period Japanese are pronounced especially in the Gokurakuji and Zaimokuza samples. The inter-regional comparisons of the medieval crania indicate that all the medieval populations from the Kanto District have more dolichocephalic, chamaeprosopic, and alveolar-protrusive crania than the population from the northern Kyushu-Yamaguchi District.<br>

Journal

• Anthropological Science (Japanese Series)

  Anthropological Science (Japanese Series) 114 (2), 139-150, 2006

  The Anthropological Society of Nippon

Keywords

• crania
• medieval
• Kamakura
• variation

Details

• CRID: 1390282679446708224
• NII Article ID: 10018443722
• NII Article ID: 30010485899
• NII Book ID: AA11307827
• DOI: 10.1537/asj.114.139
• ISSN: 13488813
• ISSN: 13443992
• ISSN: http://id.crossref.org/issn/13443992
• NDL BIB ID: 8621060
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I8621060
• Web Site: http://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/asj/114/2/114_2_139/_pdf
• Web Site: https://search.jamas.or.jp/link/ui/2007201974
• Text Lang: ja
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