“…Many dental anthropologists see the Ainu (and the Jomon) as Southeast Asian sundadonts (Turner, 1987(Turner, , 1990(Turner, , 1992aHanihara, 1991;Matsumura, 1995Matsumura, , 2007Matsumura and Hudson, 2005;Manabe et al, 2008;Matsumura et al, 2009). It is often pointed out, moreover, that extensive dental size reduction occurs exclusively in Ainu and their Jomon predecessors, together with the Philippine Negritos in eastern Asia (Brace et al, 1989(Brace et al, , 1991Brace and Hunt, 1990;Hanihara and Ishida, 2005;Matsumura and Hudson, 2005).…”