Affinities of the protohistoric Kofun people of Japan with pre- and proto-historic Asian populations.

Mizoguchi, Yuji

doi:10.1537/ase1911.96.71

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“…The multivariate analysis placed the Yayoi between the Ulch and Northern Chinese, which partly corresponds with the results of Hanihara (1985) and Mizoguchi (1988). The Yayoi were found to be less related to the Northeast Asians, including the Amur peoples, than to the Northern Chinese, historic Japanese and Mongolians in terms of nonmetric cranial traits.…”

Section: Hokkaido Ainu and Sakhalin Ainusupporting

confidence: 83%

“…The data of other samples were quoted from . Mahalanobis' generalized distances (D2) between the 25 populations were calculated using the pooled variance-covariance matrix obtained from the measurements of 260 complete male crania to avoid distortions due to intertrait correlations (Sneath and Sokal, 1973;Mizoguchi, 1988). The author scored all the 22 nonmetric cranial traits used in this study as present or absent for the Okhotsk and all the comparative series of both sexes, following the criteria of Dodo (1974Dodo ( , 1986b by himself in order to eliminate interobserver error.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Yayoi people Some craniometric analyses have suggested that the Yayoi people had a close relationship to the Ulch, an ethnic group in the Amur basin (Hanihara, 1985) or to the nomadic people in north Asia (Mizoguchi, 1988).…”

Section: Hokkaido Ainu and Sakhalin Ainumentioning

confidence: 99%

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Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Ishida

1996

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Section: Hokkaido Ainu and Sakhalin Ainusupporting

confidence: 83%

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confidence: 99%

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Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Ishida

1996

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“…We still need further studies based on larger skeletal samples of the Okhotsk people in order to examine their relationship with the Sakhalin Ainu. Some metric analyses have reached the conclusion that the Doigahama Yayoi had a close relationship to the Ulch, an ethnic group in the Amur basin (HANIHARA, 1985b;MIZOGUCHI, 1988). However, our nonmetric study placed the Amur people in an intermediate position between the Alaskan Eskimo and the East Asian, including the Mongolian, hence the Amur people seem not to be so much related to the Yayoi people.…”

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confidence: 63%

An anthropological investigation of the Sakhalin Ainu with special reference to nonmetric cranial traits.

Ishida

Kida

1991

Journal of Anthropological Society of Nippon

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The Sakhalin Ainu crania were investigated in terms of nonmetric traits for elucidating their populational affinity. MMDs between the Sakhalin Ainu, Hokkaido Ainu, Neolithic Jomon, Amur, East Asian and North American Mongoloids were calculated on the basis of 15 nonmetric traits. Principal coordinate analysis showed that the Sakhalin Ainu are situated intermediately between three major clusters which consist of the Jomon-Hokkaido Ainu, East Asian, and North American Arctic Mongoloids. While the Sakhalin Ainu basically developed from the JomonAinu stock, the results of the analyses suggested that the Sakhalin Ainu had intermarried considerably with northern people and that that genetic influence was beyond our expectation based on traditional craniometry. Ethnic groups of the Amur basin were placed in an intermediate position between the Arctic and East Asian Mongoloids.

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“…The intensely studied population history of Japan has elucidated the origin and the process of differentiation of the present inhabitants of the Japanese archipelago (Yamaguchi, 1982(Yamaguchi, , 1992Turner, 1987Turner, , 1990Mizoguchi, 1988;Brace et al, 1989;Hanihara, 1991;Dodo and Ishida, 1992;Ossenberg, 1992;Ossenberg et al, 2006). Modern Japan has two related but morphologically and genetically distinguishable ancestral populations: the Jomon people, Neolithic hunter-gatherers; and migrants from eastern Asia to the southwestern part of Japan via the Korean Peninsula, who brought rice agriculture and metal-tool technologies (outlined by Hanihara, 1991;Dodo and Ishida, 1992;Yamaguchi, 1992).…”

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Interpretation of craniometric variation in northeastern Japan, the Tohoku region

Kawakubo

Hanihara

Shigematsu

et al. 2009

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It is now generally held that the Neolithic Jomon people with generalized craniofacial features occupied the entire Japanese archipelago. Around 2300-1300 years BP, migrants from somewhere in eastern Asia to the southwestern part of Japan admixed with the indigenous Jomon descendants. Based on this population history, it is expected to find clinal variation of genetic as well as phenotypic traits over space and time, as well as population groups related to the previous inhabitants over which the present one has been superimposed at the periphery of the expansion of migrant lineages, the Tohoku region. Taking these hypotheses into account, the present study focuses on the pattern of spatial and temporal craniometric variation to address the process of population growth, expansion, and microevolution during the last 2000 years, with special reference to the population history of the Tohoku region. The results obtained support the 'dual structure model' for the origin and affinities of modern Japanese. Turning to the situation of the Tohoku region, one may conclude that the relatively close morphological affinity of Tohoku Kofun and, to a lesser extent, Tohoku Edo with the recent Ainu should not be regarded as an evidence of the close population relationships (ancestraldescendant relationships) but a possible differential retention of common ancestral characteristics.

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Affinities of the protohistoric Kofun people of Japan with pre- and proto-historic Asian populations.

Cited by 44 publications

References 33 publications

Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

An anthropological investigation of the Sakhalin Ainu with special reference to nonmetric cranial traits.

Interpretation of craniometric variation in northeastern Japan, the Tohoku region

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