Cranial morphology of human skeletal remains excavated from the Kofun period in Kyushu

TAKAMUKU Hirofumi

doi:10.15017/4774262

In this study, we analyzed the characteristics of cranial morphology of Kofun-period groups in Kyushu. Many studies on cranial morphology of Kofun-period groups in Kyushu have been conducted between 1980 and 1990. In this study, we analyzed the cranial morphology of the Kofun period population in Kyushu by adding new data. The results of the analysis generally confirmed the results of previous studies (Doi and Tanaka 1987) for both males and females. In other words, Kofun-period populations in the Northern Kyushu area resembled the traits of Yayoi-period populations in the Northern Kyushu and Yamaguchi areas. On the other hand, in areas far from the Northern Kyushu area, the similarity with the Yayoi period population was small, and the similarity with the Jomon period population was large. This study suggested that the morphology of the Kofun-era groups in the Hyuga area differed from those of previous studies. In a previous study, it was pointed out that populations in the plains tended to be higher-faced than those in the mountains, and that populations in the mountains were closer to the morphology of the Jomon period than those in the plains (Matsushita 1990). According to the results of principal component analysis based on individual data in this study, cranial morphology of Kofun-era populations in the mountainous Kakuto Basin were more similar to those of Yayoi-era populations in the Northern Kyushu region than to those of Jomon-era populations. This suggests that the mountainous areas of the Hyuga region may have been affected by the genetic influence of Yayoi period immigrants to some extent.

Cranial morphology of human skeletal remains excavated from the Kofun period in Kyushu

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