Morphological study of skeletal remains excavated from the Yoshiwara Grave Yard (Osaka, Japan)

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ID3778097
AuthorsTomohito Nagaoka (0000-0001-8802-9593), Hiroo Kumakura, 熊倉 博雄
Year2001
Volume109
Issue2
Pages85-100
Publication date2001-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropological Science (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570
PublisherAnthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP)
DOI10.1537/asj1998.109.85
OpenAlexW1554836673
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited1

This study aims to examine the morphological features of Kinki Japanese at the Edo era by comparing them with other population in Japan. The material measured here consisits of 35 males and 16 females from the Yoshiwara Grave Yard (located in Osaka, Japan) in the later Edo era (18th-19th c.).The Yoshiwara people are characterized by the transitional features from the medieval to the modern Kinki Japanese. For example, the cranial index of the Yoshiwara people is from mesocephalic to brachycephalic, the Virchow's upper facial index is chameprosopic, and the nasal index is chamaerrhine.The Yoshiwara people are more brachycephalic than other contempolary people in Japan. This feature is also true of modern Japanese (Kohama, 1960).Principal component analysis applying to 7 items of measurements is used here and shows that the Kinki Japanese at the Kofun period (4th-8th c.), as well as North Kyushu Japanese, are strongly influenced by the immigrant people. Though the reasons of brachycephalized crania in the Kinki Japanese at the Edo and the modern period are not fully known, it is almost certain that the immigration is one of the most important factors in the process of the formation of Kinki Japanese

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Crania · Geography · Immigration · Sociology · Yard · Demography · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · History · Paleopathology and ancient diseases · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology

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