Tooth Crown Affinities among South Korean, Central Taiwanese, and Certain Japanese Populations

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6135864
AutoresAkira Suzuki (0000-0002-5950-8808, Kyushu University), Byeong-Ju Han (Kyushu University), Yasuhide TAKAHAMA (Kyushu University), Woo‐sung Son (0000-0002-1106-8719, Pusan National University), WOO-SUNG SON (Pusan National University), Kazue Ito (0000-0002-0335-2170, Hiroshima University), Seiko Matsuura (Hiroshima University)
Año1994
Volumen102
Número3
Páginas271-283
Fecha de publicación1994-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
EditorialAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/ase.102.271
OpenAlexW2068777952
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas11

To understand the derivation of modern Japanese, tooth crown affinities were evaluated among nine samples. Dental casts from two samples, Pusan and Hiroshima, were added to the materials from the Akita, Tanegashima, Tsushima, Okinawa, and central Taiwan samples of our previous study (Suzuki and Takahama, 1992) as well as those from prehistoric Japanese of the Jomon and Yayoi eras (Brace and Nagai, 1982). Cluster analysis (Ward method) was carried out on the mesiodistal tooth crown diameters of these samples. The relationships among the nine samples resulting from the principal coordinate analysis based on the Mahalanobis' distances were also examined by plotting them on the Euclidean coordinate system and discussed. It was found that the samples were divided into two groups: one group consisted of the Tanegashima, Taiwan, and Jomon samples, and the other consisted of the Tsushima, Hiroshima, Pusan, and Doigahama-Yayoi samples. The result on the Pusan, Tsushima, Hiroshima, and Doigahama-Yayoi samples may support a tentative theory that the people with the Yayoi culture, the major ancestors of the modern Japanese, resulted from a migration from the Korean peninsula to the Kinai area through the Tsushima Island

Affinities · Archaeology · Biology · Crown (dentistry · Geography · Peninsula · Tooth crown · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic and Genetic Research · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Orthodontics