Population history of Japan as viewed from cranial nonmetric variation.

Dodo, Yukio; Ishida, Hajime

doi:10.1537/ase1911.98.269

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“…12. Frequencies of the five nonmetric cranial traits, which are the most efficacious for distinguishing between the Jomon-Ainu and other Japanese populations (Dodo and Ishida, 1990), in the six Amur and Sakhalin population samples. Abbreviations are as in Fig.…”

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Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Ishida

1996

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Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

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1996

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“…Table 3 lists the 18 traits, including references, used in this study. This study began with a selection of 22 nonmetric traits used by Dodo and Ishida (1990). demonstrated the stability of the frequencies of the 22 traits during the last 2000 years from the Yayoi period to the present day in the Japanese archipelago, as well as their utility in discriminating between Ainu and non-Ainu Japanese.…”

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Morphological affinities between Jomon and Ainu: reassessment based on nonmetric cranial traits

Shigematsu

Ishida

Goto

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This study reevaluates the relationship between the prehistoric Jomon and modern Ainu based on 18 nonmetric cranial traits. Although the two Ainu series from the northeast coast and central/ southern regions of Hokkaido Island are always associated with Jomon, significant differences between the Ainu and Jomon were detected in the frequencies of seven traits: metopism, supraorbital foramen, ovale-spinosum confluence, hypoglossal canal bridging, jugular foramen bridging, biasterionic suture vestige, and occipitomastoid bone. Regarding these traits, the Ainu series are more similar to the Okhotsk than to the Jomon series.

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“…It is generally agreed, based on cranial and dental morphology, that Jomon period populations are direct ancestors of the Hokkaido Ainu (e.g. Howells, 1966;Turner, 1976;Brace and Nagai, 1982;Yamaguchi, 1982;Hanihara, 1985Hanihara, , 1991Dodo, 1986;Mouri, 1986;Matsumura, 1989Matsumura, , 1994Matsumura, , 1995aDodo and Ishida, 1990;Pietrusewsky, 1994Pietrusewsky, , 2004Ossenberg et al, 2006). Geographical variation in Jomon period material has been investigated by several researchers and only minor differences have been found in the cranial morphology of samples dating from the middle to final Jomon periods (ca.…”

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Non-metric dental trait variation among local sites and regional groups of the Neolithic Jomon period, Japan

Matsumura

2007

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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 inter-site comparisons, and in 5/21 traits in the inter-regional comparisons between the Hokkaido, Tohoku, Kanto, Tokai, and Sanyo groups. Smith's distances suggest that the inter-regional differences within the Jomon assemblages are minor when compared with differences from the non-Jomon samples such as the Yayoi immigrants, Kofun, and modern Japanese. Furthermore, examination of the wider geographical variation of the Jomon people (eastern versus western) revealed significant differences in only 2/21 traits. Distance analysis showed that the eastern and western Jomon groups clustered together, and exhibited the greatest affinities with present-day Southeast Asians among comparable East Asian and Pacific population samples. The Jomon people can be collectively regarded as relatively homogeneous, within the broader context of East Asian and Pacific intra-population variation.

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Population history of Japan as viewed from cranial nonmetric variation.

Cited by 125 publications

References 17 publications

Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Metric and Nonmetric Cranial Variation of the Prehistoric Okhotsk People.

Morphological affinities between Jomon and Ainu: reassessment based on nonmetric cranial traits

Non-metric dental trait variation among local sites and regional groups of the Neolithic Jomon period, Japan

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