Late Pleistocene modern human mandibles from the Minatogawa Fissure site, Okinawa, Japan
Morphological affinities and implications for modern human dispersals in East Asia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6136033 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yousuke Kaifu (0000-0003-0483-104X, National Museum of Nature and Science), Masaki Fujita (0000-0003-3202-5264, Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha), Reiko T Kono (0000-0001-8488-6301, National Museum of Nature and Science), Hisao Baba (National Museum of Nature and Science) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 137-157 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0918-7960 • E-ISSN: 1348-8570 |
| Publisher | Anthropological Society of Nippon (PUBLISHER • JP) |
| DOI | 10.1537/ase.090424 |
| OpenAlex | W2077764109 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 46 |
The Late Pleistocene modern human skeletal remains from the Minatogawa Fissure site, Okinawa, are important because of their exceptional completeness. This paper presents the first detailed morphological description of the five mandibular specimens from Minatogawa, which probably belong to two male and two female individuals (two of the five specimens likely belong to the same male individual). Intensive metric and non-metric comparisons with the mandibles of the Jomon Holocene hunter-gatherers from mainland Japan indicate that the Minatogawa mandibles are different from the Jomon condition in many respects: a tendency toward alveolar prognathism, relatively rounded chin morphology, low anterior corpus heights, a large mental foramen, a small ramus, etc. The Jomon mandibles show chronological and geographic variations in some of these traits, but the morphology of Minatogawa is distinct even if such variations are taken into consideration. These observations caution against uncritical acceptance of the traditional view that supposes genealogical relationships between Minatogawa and Jomon. Some characteristics of the Minatogawa mandibles (e.g. alveolar prognathism and relatively small ramus) are shared with Australo-Melanesians, among other modern human populations. Based on these findings, we hypothesize that the Minatogawa people were derived from prehistoric Southeast Asian populations with Australo-Melanesian affinities
Affinities · Archaeology · Biology · Chin · Evolutionary biology · Geography · Pleistocene · Prehistory · Prognathism · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Medicine · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Orthodontics · Paleontology
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| Unique citing works | 24 |
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| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2022 (13) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |