The bioarchaeology of a Japanese population from the Nozoji-ato site in Kamakura City, Japan
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- NAGAOKA TOMOHITO
- Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki
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- HOSHINO KEIGO
- Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki
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- HIRATA KAZUAKI
- Department of Anatomy, St. Marianna University School of Medicine, Kawasaki
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Abstract
<p>The Japanese medieval period encompassed almost 400 years, between 1185 and 1573 AD. Previous research of human skeletal remains from medieval Kamakura City has shown that medieval people had a poor level of health and general living conditions because of malnutrition and interpersonal violence. The aims of this study are to apply bioarchaelogical analyses to a new series of human skeletal remains from the Nozoji-ato site in Kamakura City and to test the hypothesis that the bioarchaeological features that characterize medieval Japanese people are commonly seen in the new skeletal series. The Nozoji-ato site has been dated to a chronological age of between 1500 and 1700 AD based on the known sequence of coins and vessels, but most of these artefacts belonged to the medieval period. A sample size of 45 individuals was used in this study from individual graves. The results of this study indicate that the sample from Nozoji-ato is characterized by an old age-at-death distribution and high number of caries-lesion and ante-mortem tooth loss frequencies. Individuals from the Nozoji-ato site also tend to lack evidence for lethal trauma, a phenomenon that is frequently observed in other comparative medieval populations. The results presented in this study led to the conclusion that the Nozoji-ato exhibit different bioarchaeological features compared to the populations from the first half of the medieval period and that living conditions at this site were less severe than expected.</p>
Journal
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- Anthropological Science
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Anthropological Science 126 (2), 89-100, 2018
The Anthropological Society of Nippon
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Details 詳細情報について
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- CRID
- 1390001288066036224
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- NII Article ID
- 130007472801
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- NII Book ID
- AA11307827
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- ISSN
- 13488570
- 09187960
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- NDL BIB ID
- 029170162
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- Text Lang
- en
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- Data Source
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- JaLC
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