A Racial Anthropological Study On The Japanese

This dissertation, including five chapters, is aimed at analyzing the raciological genealogy of the Homo sapiens fossil of the Japanese Paleolithic period,the Jomon people,the Yayoi people and the Kofun people and tracing their Racial Anthropological relations.Chapterâ… . PrefaceIn this chapter, the author briefly introduces the nature geography environment of Japanese, and summarizes the former research in prehistoric anthropology and archaeology. In the end, the author expatiates on the significance and purpose of the research of this dissertation.Chapterâ…¡. A Racial Anthropological Study on the Jomon peopleBase on the anthropological materials on Jomon excavated from Japanese, Russia, China, etc, this author, by using the multitude statistical analysis, the Euclidean distance analysis, the Squared Euclidean distance analysis, the cluster analysis and the factor analysis, suggests that Jomon crania have mesocrany, orthocrany and slight hypsicrany type, wide and lean forehead, chamaerrhiny nasal type and chamaeconchy orbital type, etc. They are similar to the groups from Northeast Asiatic Mongoloids on the anthropology characteristic, but there are many differences with North Asiatic Mongoloids. And, most of the Jomon groups came closer to the ancient population from Northeast China of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages, but there are many differences with them from North China, Baikal and Transbaikalia. Jomon crania are compared with the Homo sapiens fossil of the Japanese Paleolithic period,the result shows that the Minatogawa Man cames closer to the Jomon people, but there are a lot of differences with ancient people whom lived in China, Baikal and Transbaikalia of Russia of the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.Chapterâ…¢. A Racial Anthropological Study on the Yayoi peopleBase on the anthropological materials on Yayoi excavated from Japanese, Russia, China, etc, this author, by using the multitude statistical analysis, the Euclidean distance analysis, the Squared Euclidean distance analysis, the cluster analysis and the factor analysis, suggests that most Yayoi crania have meso-dolichocrany, hypsicrany and acrocrany type, the upper facial index are meson, flat and relatively heavy part face round cheekbone, mesoconchy orbital type and mesorrhiny nasal type, etc. these groups are more similar to the groups from East Asiatic Mongoloids on the anthropological characteristic. most of the Yayoi population are close to the ancient population were respectively belong to Ancient Center Plain Chinese Type and Ancient Northeastern Chinese Type that lived in the Huanghe Basin and the Northeast of China from Pre-Qin Dynasty to Han Dynasty. least of the Yayoi crania that have short upper facial height, great nasal index and low orbital index , etc. they are more similar to the groups from South Asiatic Mongoloids on the anthropological characteristic, and there are many resembles with the Ancient Northern Chinese Type of the Neolithic Ages. Generally, the Yayoi population have a lot of differences with the ancient nomadic races whom lived in the North of China and Baikal of Russia of the Neolithic Ages.Chapterâ…£. A Racial Anthropological Study on the Kofun peopleBase on the anthropological materials on Kofun excavated from Japanese, Russia, China, etc, this author, by using the multitude statistical analysis, the Euclidean distance analysis, the Squared Euclidean distance analysis, the cluster analysis and the factor analysis, suggests that the most Kofun crania have mesocrany,meso- hypsicrany and metriocrany type, the upper facial index are mesen, mesoconchy orbital type and chamaerrhiny nasal type, etc. They are more similar to the groups from East Asiatic Mongoloids on the anthropology characteristic. Most of the Kofun population is the closest to the Yayoi population and the Jomon population whom are the most of the Yayoi and the Jomon period. There are some resembles between those Kofun groups and groups which belong to Ancient Center Plain Chinese Type and Ancient Northeastern Chinese Type from Pre-Qin Dynasty to Han Dynasty. least of the Kofun crania have mesocrany,orthocrany and metriocrany but near tapeinocrany type, the upper facial index are mesen, mesoconchy orbital type and chamaerrhiny nasal type, etc. These groups are more similar to the groups from North Asiatic Mongoloids on the anthropology characteristic, and they seemed to be the closest to the Mohe people whom lived in the Far East of Russia. Chapterâ…¤. ConclusionIn this chapter, this author, based on raciological studies on the relationship among the four ancient races, namely, the Minatogawa Man,the Jomon people,the Yayoi people and the Kofun people, and at the same time taking archaeological studies into consideration, show that the people whom lived in the Japanese of the Paleolithic period,the Jomon people,the Yayoi people and the Kofun people have a lot of homogeneity in physical characteristics, and they should have shared some common genealogical ancestry.