H Matsumura
Biographic Data
| ID | 84117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | H Matsumura |
| GIVEN NAMES | H |
| FAMILY NAME | Matsumura |
| SIGNATURE | MATSUMURA H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapporo Medical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5453-7987 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 461 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Craniometric Analysis of Thalassemic Individuals From Neolithic Northern Vietnam (4000–3500 bp )
Thalassemia is an inherited blood disorder affecting hemoglobin synthesis that is common in the Mediterranean, Middle East, Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia. Skeletal evidence for the disease has been identified in Mainland Southeast Asia as early as 7000 years ago. Thalassemia results in hyperactive marrow expansion, increasing the brittleness of bone and leading to poorer preservation in the archaeological record. Thus, the disease is li…
Dental Stigmata and Skeletal Lesions of Congenital Treponematosis in Early Agricultural Vietnam (4000–3500 bp )
Prior research has documented treponematosis at a single site in Mainland Southeast Asia from northern Vietnam dated to the early agricultural transition (~4000–3500 bp ). To date, no other cases in Southeast Asia's prehistory have been identified. Here, we present evidence for congenital treponematosis in three non‐adults from two different sites in north and south Neolithic Vietnam (4000–3200 bp ) who present with dental and/or skeletal evidenc…
A Probable Case of Multiple Osteochondromas With Madelung-Type Deformity in Human Remains From the 7th to 10th Centuries in Japan
We present a rare paleopathological case of probable multiple osteochondromas (MO) with an associated Madelung-type deformity, identified in an adult male skeleton excavated from the Hasekouji-Shuhen site in Kamakura, Japan, dated from the 7th-10th centuries ad. The individual exhibited multiple exostotic lesions, primarily affecting the distal femora, proximal tibiae, and fibulae, along with a pronounced right-sided forearm deformity characteriz…
Fragmentary and dispersed: Preadult personhood and social memory in a Southeast Asian forager cemetery
Bioarchaeological analyses of preadults provide a wealth of information about past lifeways and social structures, including aspects of personhood. However, studies of personhood and childhood in archaeological hunter-gatherer (or forager) contexts remain limited, particularly for Southeast Asia. Here, we explore aspects of personhood and the lived experiences of preadults at Con Co Ngua, an early seventh millennium BP sedentary hunter-gatherer c…
Factors influencing cranial variation between prehistoric Japanese forager populations
Understanding the factors shaping human crania has long been a goal of biological anthropology, and climate, diet, and population history are three of the most well-established influences. The effects of these factors are, however, rarely compared within a single, variable population, limiting interpretations of their relative contribution to craniofacial form. Jomon prehistoric foragers inhabited Japan throughout its climatic and ecological rang…
Hypomineralization disorder in tropical Southeast Asia during the agricultural revolution: Analysis of morbidity and mortality
This paper presents evidence for hypomineralization disorders (rickets and osteomalacia) in non-adults at Man Bac, a Neolithic site from northern Vietnam dated to 4000-3500BP, contributing to the well-described disease burden at the site that includes scurvy, treponemal disease, thalassemia, and malaria. Forty-four non-adults (<20 years of age-at-death) were assessed for macroscopic and radiographic evidence for hypomineralization disorders. Diff…
Nutritional deficiency and ecological stress in the Middle to Final western Jōmon
Despite significant research, the direct and indirect causes of a population decline in the eponymous foragers of the Late Jōmon period (c. 4500-2300 BP) in Japan remains undetermined. Here, the authors examine the impact of nutritional stress, using scurvy as a case study, on Middle and a Late/Final Jōmon populations. While an increase in the prevalence of scurvy between the time periods is apparent, no associated change in age at death was obse…
Early Holocene exploitation of taro and yam among southern East Asian hunter-gatherers
Increases in population size are associated with the adoption of Neolithic agricultural practices in many areas of the world, but rapid population growth within the Dingsishan cultural group of southern China pre-dated the arrival of rice and millet farming in this area. In this article, the authors identify starch grains from taros (Colocasia) and yams (Dioscorea) in dental calculus and on food-processing tools from the Dingsishan sites of Huiya…
Negritos in Taiwan and the wider prehistory of Southeast Asia: New discovery from the Xiaoma Caves
Taiwan is known as the homeland of the Austronesian-speaking groups, yet other populations already had lived here since the Pleistocene. Conventional notions have postulated that the Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers were replaced or absorbed into the Neolithic Austronesian farming communities. Yet, some evidence has indicated that sparse numbers of non-Austronesian individuals continued to live in the remote mountains as late as the 1800s. The crani…
Identity and community structure in Neolithic Man Bac, northern Vietnam
Pediatric mandibular osteomyelitis: A probable case from Okhotsk period (5th–13th century AD) northern Japan
This paper discusses a probable case of pediatric mandibular osteomyelitis (OM) from the east Hokkaido Okhotsk (5th–13th century AD) site of Moyoro, Japan. The remains of a young child present an unusual mandibular lesion exhibiting two main features: (1) cortical thickening reflecting periosteal new bone formation, and (2) lytic alveolar destruction with associated antemortem tooth loss. The lesion was examined macroscopically, microscopically, …
Two Probable Cases of Infection with Treponema pallidum during the Neolithic Period in Northern Vietnam (ca. 2000–1500 B.C.)
Skeletal evidence of two probable cases of treponematosis, caused by infection with the bacterium Treponema pallidum, from the northern Vietnamese early Neolithic site of Man Bac (1906–1523 cal B.C.) is described. The presence of nodes of subperiosteal new bone directly associated with superficial focal cavitations in a young adult male and a seven-year- old child are strongly diagnostic for treponemal disease. Climatic and epidemiological contex…
Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site in Hokkaido, Japan
The Funadomari Jomon people were hunter-gatherers living on Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan c. 3500–3800 years ago. In this study, we determined the high-depth and low-depth nuclear genome sequences from a Funadomari Jomon female (F23) and male (F5), respectively. We genotyped the \nnuclear DNA of F23 and determined the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class-I genotypes and the phenotypic traits. Moreover, a pathogenic mutation in the CPT1A gene was i…
Ancient genomes document multiple waves of migration in Southeast Asian prehistory
Ancient migrations in Southeast Asia The past movements and peopling of Southeast Asia have been poorly represented in ancient DNA studies (see the Perspective by Bellwood). Lipson et al. generated sequences from people inhabiting Southeast Asia from about 1700 to 4100 years ago. Screening of more than a hundred individuals from five sites yielded ancient DNA from 18 individuals. Comparisons with present-day populations suggest two waves of mixin…
Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia
Large, ‘complex’ pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities thrived in southern China and northern Vietnam, contemporaneous with the expansion of farming. Research at Con Co Ngua in Vietnam suggests that such hunter-gatherer populations shared characteristics with early farming communities: high disease loads, pottery, complex mortuary practices and access to stable sources of carbohydrates and protein. The substantive difference was in the use of…
Dental phenotypic shape variation supports a multiple dispersal model for anatomically modern humans in Southeast Asia
Optimal Ancient DNA Yields from the Inner Ear Part of the Human Petrous Bone
The invention and development of next or second generation sequencing methods has resulted in a dramatic transformation of ancient DNA research and allowed shotgun sequencing of entire genomes from fossil specimens. However, although there are exceptions, most fossil specimens contain only low (~ 1% or less) percentages of endogenous DNA. The only skeletal element for which a systematically higher endogenous DNA content compared to other skeletal…
Demographic transitions and migration in prehistoric East/Southeast Asia through the lens of nonmetric dental traits
The aim of this study is to examine and assess the nonmetric dental trait evidence for the population history of East and Southeast Asia and, more specifically, to test the two‐layer hypothesis for the peopling of Southeast Asia. Using a battery of 21 nonmetric dental traits we examine 7,247 individuals representing 58 samples drawn from East and Southeast Asian populations inhabiting the region from the late Pleistocene, through the Neolithic, B…
A comparative study of stress episode prevalence and duration among jomon period foragers from hokkaido
This study reconstructs linear enamel hypoplasia (LEH) prevalence and stress episode duration among Jomon period foragers from Hokkaido, Japan (HKJ). Results are compared to Jomon period samples from coastal Honshu, Japan (HSJ) and Tigara Inupiat from Point Hope, Alaska (PHT) to provide a more comprehensive perspective on the manifestation of stress among circum‐Pacific foragers. LEH were identified macro‐ and microscopically by enamel surface de…
Metric characteristics of human limb bones in Asian and Japanese populations
Twelve metric variables of the humerus, radius, femur, and tibia were investigated in 11 male samples from northeastern and eastern Asian populations. Variations among regions and correlations between latitude and respective measurements and indices were calculated and a principal component analysis was conducted to elucidate human limb bone characteristics. Significant correlation and marginally significant correlation were found for the maximum…
Commutative Ring Theory
Population history of northern Vietnamese inferred from nonmetric cranial trait variation
In this study, nine nonmetric cranial traits were recorded for ancient human remains excavated at early prehistoric (the late Pleistocene, early Holocene, and Pre-Pottery Neolithic) and late prehistoric (the Neolithic and early Iron age) archeological sites in northern Vietnam. The comparative samples consist of prehistoric and early historic crania from the lower Yangtze River basin, together with recent cranial series from Vietnam, Thailand, So…
Man Bac: Regional, Cultural and Temporal Context
One of the most important issues facing us is the interpretation of Man Bac and its placement in a cultural and temporal context. The archaeological context of Man Bac places it firmly within a cultural complex identified as the Phung Nguyen, dated to around 1,800-1,400 BCE (Nguyen et al. 2004). In recent years, this cultural complex has been referred to as either Late neolithic or earliest Bronze Age The term 'neolithic' has been traditionally u…
An Son and the Neolithic of Southern Vietnam
Between 4500 and 3500 years ago, partially intrusive Neolithic populations in the riverine basins of mainland Southeast Asia began to form mounded settlements and to develop economies based on rice cultivation, fishing, hunting, and the domestication of animals, especially pigs and dogs. A number of these sites have been excavated in recent years and they are often large mounds that can attain several meters in depth, comprising successive layers…
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia
To clarify the colonizing process of East/Northeast Asia as well as the peopling of the Americas, identifying the genetic characteristics of Paleolithic Siberians is indispensable. However, no genetic information on the Paleolithic Siberians has hitherto been reported. In the present study, we analyzed ancient DNA recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, which was connected with southern Siberia in…
A Microevolutional History of the Japanese People from a Dental Characteristics Perspective
In an effort to demonstrate the microevolutional history of the Japanese populations from the viewpoint of dental morphology, metrical and nonmetrical crown traits were investigated for eight population samples from various periods in Japan, extending from the prehistoric Jomon period to the present. The results were compared with those found in other East Asian populations, to clarify the question of the ancestry of the Japanese populations. Sev…
Terminal Pleistocene human skeleton from Hang Cho Cave, northern Vietnam: Implications for the biological affinities of Hoabinhian people
An excavation at the cave site of Hang Cho in northern Vietnam resulted in the discovery of a terminal Pleistocene human skeleton in a relatively good state of preservation. The material culture from this site belongs to the pre-ceramic Hoabinhian period. An AMS radiocarbon date on a tooth sample extracted from this individual gives a calibrated age of 10450 ± 300 years BP. In discussions of the population history of Southeast Asia, it has been r…
Mitochondrial DNA haplogrouping of the Okhotsk people based on analysis of ancient DNA: An intermediate of gene flow from the continental Sakhalin people to the Ainu
In order to further understand the genetic status of the Okhotsk people, who were distributed in southern coastal regions of the Okhotsk Sea during the 5th–13th centuries, nucleotide variations in the hypervariable region (HVR) and the coding regions of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) were analyzed. Targeting the coding regions provides reliable genetic information even from ancient DNAs that may have suffered post-mortem damage. MtDNA haplogroups of 3…
Morphometric affinity of the late Neolithic human remains from Man Bac, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam: Key Skeletons With Which to Debate the 'Two Layer' Hypothesis
The excavation of the Man Bac site (c. 3800-3500 years BP) in Ninh Binh Province, Northern Vietnam, yielded a large mortuary assemblage. A total of 31 inhumations were recovered during the 2004-2005 excavation. Multivariate comparisons using cranial and dental metrics demonstrated close affinities of the Man Bac people to later early Metal Age Dong Son Vietnamese and early and modern samples from southern China including the Neolithic to Western …
Health and the Experience of Childhood in Late Neolithic Viet Nam
The article aims to examine aspects of mortuary behavior in late Neolithic/early Bronze Age (Phung Nguyen phase) populations represented at the site of Man Bac in Viet Nam, specifically how mortuary behavior illuminates the role of children, and adult attitudes toward children. In addition, the authors discuss biological characteristics of the human sample, focusing particularly on the child burials, in order to explore aspects of childhood palae…
Non-metric dental trait variation among local sites and regional groups of the Neolithic Jomon period, Japan
Inter-populational heterogeneity of the Neolithic Jomon hunter-gatherers of Japan was examined via 21 non-metric dental traits. Skeletal samples from nine local sites and five regional groups of the middle to final stages of the Jomon period were analyzed, and inter-site comparisons were made among five representative sites (Ubayama, Nakazuma, Ikawazu, Yoshiko, and Tsukumo). Statistically significant differences were found in 4/21 traits in the i…
Dental Characteristics Affinities of the Prehistoric to Modern Japanese with the East Asians, American Natives and Australo-Melanesians
Dental characteristics of the prehistoric to modern Japanese were compared with those observed in the 23 Mongoloid samples including the American natives and Australo-Melanesians. The results of comparisons confirmed Turner's“Sinodonty”and“Sundadonty”classifications on the basis of the nonmetric trait pattern, with clarifying the metric features that most effectively discriminate between the two dental series. Taking both the metric and nonmetric…
Paralysis and severe disability requiring intensive care in Neolithic Asia
This communication documents one of the earliest verifiable cases of human paralysis associated with severe spinal pathology. A series of skeletal abnormalities is described for a young adult male (M9) from a Southeast Asian Neolithic community. Differential diagnosis suggests that M9 suffered from a severely disabling congenital fusion of the spine (Klippel-Feil Syndrome, Type III), resulting in child-onset lower body paralysis at a minimum (max…
Morphologic and Genetic Evidence for the Kinship of Juvenile Skeletal Specimens from a 2,000 Year-old Double Burial of the Usu-Moshiri Site, Hokkaido, Japan
This paper presents a case study of a double burial at the 2,000 year-old Usu-Moshiri Epi-Jomon site in Hokkaido, Japan, using detailed odontometric analysis in conjunction with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis in order to more precisely assess their kinship. Consanguinity between the two juveniles found in this burial was suggested by the archaeological context as well as by preliminary morphological studies of the skeletons. Mitochondrial DNA…
Demographic transitions and migration in prehistoric East/Southeast Asia through the lens of nonmetric dental traits
The aim of this study is to examine and assess the nonmetric dental trait evidence for the population history of East and Southeast Asia and, more specifically, to test the two‐layer hypothesis for the peopling of Southeast Asia. Using a battery of 21 nonmetric dental traits we examine 7,247 individuals representing 58 samples drawn from East and Southeast Asian populations inhabiting the region from the late Pleistocene, through the Neolithic, B…
Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia
This article uses metric and nonmetric dental data to test the "two-layer" or immigration hypothesis whereby Southeast Asia was initially occupied by an "Australo-Melanesian" population that later underwent substantial genetic admixture with East Asian immigrants associated with the spread of agriculture from the Neolithic period onwards. We examined teeth from 4,002 individuals comprising 42 prehistoric and historic samples from East Asia, South…
Late Jomon male and female genome sequences from the Funadomari site in Hokkaido, Japan
The Funadomari Jomon people were hunter-gatherers living on Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan c. 3500–3800 years ago. In this study, we determined the high-depth and low-depth nuclear genome sequences from a Funadomari Jomon female (F23) and male (F5), respectively. We genotyped the \nnuclear DNA of F23 and determined the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class-I genotypes and the phenotypic traits. Moreover, a pathogenic mutation in the CPT1A gene was i…
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Hokkaido Jomon skeletons: Remnants of archaic maternal lineages at the southwestern edge of former Beringia
To clarify the colonizing process of East/Northeast Asia as well as the peopling of the Americas, identifying the genetic characteristics of Paleolithic Siberians is indispensable. However, no genetic information on the Paleolithic Siberians has hitherto been reported. In the present study, we analyzed ancient DNA recovered from Jomon skeletons excavated from the northernmost island of Japan, Hokkaido, which was connected with southern Siberia in…
Biological affinities of Okhotsk-culture people with East Siberians and Arctic people based on dental characteristics
This paper examines the population affinity of the Okhotsk-culture people who settled along the northeastern coastal areas of the islands of Hokkaido and Sakhalin during the 5th and 11th centuries, on the bases of dental metric and nonmetric features. Based on neighbor-joining analyses of both metric and nonmetric data, the Okhostk people, eastern Siberians, and subarctic American natives were linked more closely to each other than to other East …
Oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido
This paper examines variables useful in reconstructing oral (caries, antemortem tooth loss, alveolar defects) and physiological (cribra orbitalia, linear enamel hypoplasia) well‐being in two bioarchaeological assemblages from Hokkaido, Japan: Okhotsk ( n =37 individuals) and Jomon ( n =60). Findings are compared and contrasted with each other, with published series from Honshu Japan, and samples from climatically near‐equivalent Alaska. It was fo…
Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam)
An Archaic Homo Molar from Northern Vietnam
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Between foraging and farming: Strategic responses to the Holocene Thermal Maximum in Southeast Asia
Large, ‘complex’ pre-Neolithic hunter-gatherer communities thrived in southern China and northern Vietnam, contemporaneous with the expansion of farming. Research at Con Co Ngua in Vietnam suggests that such hunter-gatherer populations shared characteristics with early farming communities: high disease loads, pottery, complex mortuary practices and access to stable sources of carbohydrates and protein. The substantive difference was in the use of…
Temporal variation and interaction between nutritional and developmental instability in prehistoric Japanese populations
We examined nutritional and developmental instability in prehistoric Japan, using data from 49 individuals across 13 archaeological sites. Hypoplasia incidence was used as a measure of nutritional stress, and fluctuating asymmetry (of upper facial breath, orbital breadth, and orbital height) as an indirect assessment of developmental instability. Abundant resources due to a stable climate during the Middle Jomon (5,000–3,000 BP) encouraged popula…
A Morphometric Analysis of Jomon Skeletons from the Funadomari Site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan
Excavations at the Funadomari Site, located on Rebun Island, in northernmost Japan, have recovered 28 inhumation burials which date to the Late Jomon Period. The morphological characteristics of these skeletons, including metric and non-metric cranial traits, dental measurements, and limb bone measurements, are similar to other Jomon skeletal series from Honshu Island, Japan. However, analysis of cranial metric data reveals some peculiarities in …
Metric characteristics of human limb bones in Asian and Japanese populations
Twelve metric variables of the humerus, radius, femur, and tibia were investigated in 11 male samples from northeastern and eastern Asian populations. Variations among regions and correlations between latitude and respective measurements and indices were calculated and a principal component analysis was conducted to elucidate human limb bone characteristics. Significant correlation and marginally significant correlation were found for the maximum…
Population history of northern Vietnamese inferred from nonmetric cranial trait variation
In this study, nine nonmetric cranial traits were recorded for ancient human remains excavated at early prehistoric (the late Pleistocene, early Holocene, and Pre-Pottery Neolithic) and late prehistoric (the Neolithic and early Iron age) archeological sites in northern Vietnam. The comparative samples consist of prehistoric and early historic crania from the lower Yangtze River basin, together with recent cranial series from Vietnam, Thailand, So…
Mitochondrial DNA analysis of Jomon skeletons from the Funadomari site, Hokkaido, and its implication for the origins of Native American
Ancient DNA recovered from 16 Jomon skeletons excavated from Funadomari site, Hokkaido, Japan was analyzed to elucidate the genealogy of the early settlers of the Japanese archipelago. Both the control and coding regions of their mitochondrial DNA were analyzed in detail, and we could securely assign 14 mtDNAs to relevant haplogroups. Haplogroups D1a, M7a, and N9b were observed in these individuals, and N9b was by far the most predominant. The fa…
Do body proportions among Jomon foragers from Hokkaido conform to ecogeographic expectations? evolutionary implications of body size and shape among northerly hunter-gatherers
This study documents and interprets adaptive postcranial morphology among prehistoric Jomon period foragers from Hokkaido, Japan (HKJ). The Hokkaido climate is differentiated from other Japanese islands by freezing winters with sea-ice accumulation in the northern regions. Increased brachial and crural indices are, however, observed among HKJ foragers, while body mass (BM) has not yet been estimated for these groups. Based on previous observation…
On the origin of pre-Angkorian peoples: Perspectives from cranial and dental affinity of the human remains from Iron Age Phum Snay, Cambodia
This article presents the results of an assessment of the morphological affinities of the skeletal remains from a large mortuary assemblage, dated to Iron Age, in Phum Snay, a village in Banteay Meanchey Province, northwest Cambodia. The purpose of the research is to address the origin of these pre-Angkorian people. Multivariate comparisons using cranial and dental metrics, as well as dental nonmetric traits, demonstrate that the characteristic a…
Geographical variation of dental measurements in the Jomon population
Mesiodistal and buccolingual crown measurements were taken from the permanent tooth remains of the five Middle to Latest Jomon population samples from the Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Tokai and San'yo districts of Japan. The metrical data were compared with each other through multivariate statistical methods. The analysis of variance for these crown measurements suggested that most of the variables showing significant geographical difference were buc…
A human femur from prehistoric Hokkaido penetrated by a stone arrowhead
北海道伊達市の有珠10遺跡において続縄文時代恵山文化期に属する17号墓の散乱人骨のなかから,石鏃が射込まれている成人男性の大腿骨が検出された。CT画像による観察の結果,石鏃の先端が14mm におよんで大腿骨の骨頭内に射入されており,治癒した傾向は認められなかった
Geographical variation of dental characteristics in the Japanese of the protohistoric Kofun period
Metrical and nonmetrical crown characteristics in the permanent dentition were investigated for seven protohistoric Kofun population samples from western and eastern Japan. The difference between the western and eastern Kofun series was significant in only one measurement in males, whereas in five measurements in females
A Human Skeleton of the Satsumon Period from the Shimodanosawa Site, Akkeshi-cho, Eastern Hokkaido
北海道東部の厚岸町下田ノ沢遺跡より,1966年,1体の擦文時代人骨が発見された。人骨は頭骨ほぼ全体と体幹•体肢骨の一部が,人類学的研究に耐え得る状態に保存されていた。年齢,性別は成年女性である。頭骨の計測値に基づいた距離計算では,アイヌよりも東北日本人にやや近いという結果が得られたが,歯の計測値に基づく距離計算と頭骨の非計測的小変異に基づく分析の結果は,本人骨が明らかにアイヌに帰属することを示した。体幹•体肢骨の計測と観察の結果もこれを支持するものであった。頭骨の非計測的小変異では,関節面を有する典型的な第3後頭顆の発現が注目された。分析結果を総合的に解釈すると,下田ノ沢擦文時代人骨の形質は,近世北海道アイヌのそれと基本的に変わるところがないと結論される
A Microevolutional History of the Japanese People from a Dental Characteristics Perspective
In an effort to demonstrate the microevolutional history of the Japanese populations from the viewpoint of dental morphology, metrical and nonmetrical crown traits were investigated for eight population samples from various periods in Japan, extending from the prehistoric Jomon period to the present. The results were compared with those found in other East Asian populations, to clarify the question of the ancestry of the Japanese populations. Sev…
Dental Characteristics Affinities of the Prehistoric to Modern Japanese with the East Asians, American Natives and Australo-Melanesians
Dental characteristics of the prehistoric to modern Japanese were compared with those observed in the 23 Mongoloid samples including the American natives and Australo-Melanesians. The results of comparisons confirmed Turner's“Sinodonty”and“Sundadonty”classifications on the basis of the nonmetric trait pattern, with clarifying the metric features that most effectively discriminate between the two dental series. Taking both the metric and nonmetric…
Native or Migrant Lineage? The Aeneolithic Yayoi People in Western and Eastern Japan: The Aeneolithic Yayoi People in Western and Eastern Japan
Human remains of the aeneolithic Yayoi period from the Shakameyama site in Ehime Prefecture, Taishaku-Nagoshi site in Hiroshima Prefecture, Karako-Kagi site in Nara Prefecture, Bishamon site in Kanagawa Prefecture, and Sano and Awajinsha sites in Chiba Prefecture were assessed as of the native or migrant type by using discriminant functions based on the tooth crown measurements. The Taishaku-Nagoshi, Karako-Kagi and two of three Bishamon remains …
Metric analyses of an Early Holocene human skeleton from Gua Gunung Runtuh, Malaysia
A nearly complete human skeleton dating to the Early Holocene (epi-Paleolithic culture) excavated from Gua Gunung Runtuh, Malaysia, is described. Cranial, dental, and limb bone measurements are recorded on the skeleton, and compared with early and modern skeletal samples from Southeast Asia and Australia. The comparisons demonstrate that the Gua Gunung specimen is most similar to Australian Aborigines in dental and limb measurements, while the cr…
Statistical significance of Q-mode correlation coefficients between individuals
Differentials of Yayoi immigration to Japanas derived from dental metrics
Dental Morphology of the Early Hoabinian, the Neolithic Da But and the Metal Age Dong Son Civilized Peoples in Vietnam.
The early Hoabinian, the Neolithic Da But and the Dong Son (early Metal age) civilized peoples in northern Vietnam were investigated based on dental morphology and were compared with specimens from surrounding Northeast and Southeast Asia including Australians and Melanesians. In both the metric and nonmetric tooth traits, the Hoabinian and Da But specimens had dental features similar to the prehistoric Southeast Asians and the Australo-Melanesia…
A Morphometric Analysis of Jomon Skeletons from the Funadomari Site on Rebun Island, Hokkaido, Japan
Excavations at the Funadomari Site, located on Rebun Island, in northernmost Japan, have recovered 28 inhumation burials which date to the Late Jomon Period. The morphological characteristics of these skeletons, including metric and non-metric cranial traits, dental measurements, and limb bone measurements, are similar to other Jomon skeletal series from Honshu Island, Japan. However, analysis of cranial metric data reveals some peculiarities in …
Morphologic and Genetic Evidence for the Kinship of Juvenile Skeletal Specimens from a 2,000 Year-old Double Burial of the Usu-Moshiri Site, Hokkaido, Japan
This paper presents a case study of a double burial at the 2,000 year-old Usu-Moshiri Epi-Jomon site in Hokkaido, Japan, using detailed odontometric analysis in conjunction with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis in order to more precisely assess their kinship. Consanguinity between the two juveniles found in this burial was suggested by the archaeological context as well as by preliminary morphological studies of the skeletons. Mitochondrial DNA…
An Archaic Homo Molar from Northern Vietnam
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A morphometric analysis of the Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton from the Moh Khiew Cave in Thailand
Dental perspectives on the population history of Southeast Asia
This article uses metric and nonmetric dental data to test the "two-layer" or immigration hypothesis whereby Southeast Asia was initially occupied by an "Australo-Melanesian" population that later underwent substantial genetic admixture with East Asian immigrants associated with the spread of agriculture from the Neolithic period onwards. We examined teeth from 4,002 individuals comprising 42 prehistoric and historic samples from East Asia, South…
Discovery of a second human molar and cranium fragment in the late Middle to Late Pleistocene cave of Ma U'Oi (Northern Vietnam)
Sundadonty” and the population history of Southeast Asia: A reply to Turner
Early historic human remains from the Hasekouji-Shuhen site in Kamakura, Japan
Eight human skeletons in a good state of preservation have been recovered from excavations at the Hasekouji-Shuhen site in Kamakura city, Kanto region, Japan. We conducted AMS radiocarbon dating that revealed the skeletons to belong to the early historic Asuka, Nara, and early Heian periods (circa 670–970 calAD). In terms of their cranial, dental, and limb bone measurements, the Hasekouji-Shuhen skeletons exhibit morphological characteristics tha…
Diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis in Late Jomon Hokkaido, Japan
The purpose of this study is to describe and analyse the evidence for diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis (DISH) in samples of human skeletal material recovered from Late Jomon (ca. 1500–300 BCE) and Okhotsk (CE 500–900) cultural period sites, northwestern Hokkaido, Japan. Two individuals from the Jomon period assemblage (n = 14) exhibited lesions consistent with DISH, while the larger Okhotsk sample (n = 39) was free of this condition. The …
Embodying Okhotsk Ethnicity: Human Skeletal Remains from the Aonae Dune Site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido
This article describes human skeletal remains from the Aonae Dune site, Okushiri Island, Hokkaido, Japan. Skeletal remains of an adult female and two subadults were excavated in 2002. Although these remains derived from Okhotsk culture contexts, analyses of cranial and tooth crown measurements demonstrated that Aonae Dune No. 1 (the adult female), Aonae Dune No. 2 (a child of about 11 years), and Aonae Dune No. 3 (a child of about 6 years) are mo…
Non-metric dental trait variation among local sites and regional groups of the Neolithic Jomon period, Japan
Inter-populational heterogeneity of the Neolithic Jomon hunter-gatherers of Japan was examined via 21 non-metric dental traits. Skeletal samples from nine local sites and five regional groups of the middle to final stages of the Jomon period were analyzed, and inter-site comparisons were made among five representative sites (Ubayama, Nakazuma, Ikawazu, Yoshiko, and Tsukumo). Statistically significant differences were found in 4/21 traits in the i…
Oral and physiological paleohealth in cold adapted peoples: Northeast Asia, Hokkaido
This paper examines variables useful in reconstructing oral (caries, antemortem tooth loss, alveolar defects) and physiological (cribra orbitalia, linear enamel hypoplasia) well‐being in two bioarchaeological assemblages from Hokkaido, Japan: Okhotsk ( n =37 individuals) and Jomon ( n =60). Findings are compared and contrasted with each other, with published series from Honshu Japan, and samples from climatically near‐equivalent Alaska. It was fo…
Temporal variation and interaction between nutritional and developmental instability in prehistoric Japanese populations
We examined nutritional and developmental instability in prehistoric Japan, using data from 49 individuals across 13 archaeological sites. Hypoplasia incidence was used as a measure of nutritional stress, and fluctuating asymmetry (of upper facial breath, orbital breadth, and orbital height) as an indirect assessment of developmental instability. Abundant resources due to a stable climate during the Middle Jomon (5,000–3,000 BP) encouraged popula…
Morphometric affinity of the late Neolithic human remains from Man Bac, Ninh Binh Province, Vietnam: Key Skeletons With Which to Debate the 'Two Layer' Hypothesis
The excavation of the Man Bac site (c. 3800-3500 years BP) in Ninh Binh Province, Northern Vietnam, yielded a large mortuary assemblage. A total of 31 inhumations were recovered during the 2004-2005 excavation. Multivariate comparisons using cranial and dental metrics demonstrated close affinities of the Man Bac people to later early Metal Age Dong Son Vietnamese and early and modern samples from southern China including the Neolithic to Western …
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