Early Jomon and Yayoi human skeletal remains from Shimomotoyama Rock Shelter, Sasebo, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan

Kaifu Yousuke, Sakaue Kazuhiro, Kono Reiko T.

doi:10.1537/asj.1705082

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下本山岩陰遺跡（長崎県佐世保市）出土の縄文時代前期・弥生時代人骨
シタホンザンガンインイセキ(ナガサキケンサセボシ)シュツドノジョウモンジダイゼンキ・ヤヨイジダイジンコツ

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<p>This paper reports human skeletal remains excavated from the Shimomotoyama Rock Shelter site, Sasebo, Nagasaki, in 1970 by Masaru Aso and his colleagues. The excavated human remains include two individuals belonging to the Early Jomon phase, two well-preserved individuals buried together in a stone coffin constructed in the Yayoi period, and other fragmentary remains. At least one of the Jomon individuals displays a suite of cranial and postcranial features known for the Jomon people. The Yayoi series show general morphological affinities to Jomon rather than to an “immigrant” Yayoi sample from northern Kyushu, although one of them displays a high facial height that characterizes the latter. Combined with the geographic location of the site, this Yayoi series can be included in the so-called “Northwestern-Kyushu type” that is believed to have had genealogical relationship with the local Jomon inhabitants. We also report about the observed high frequency of bone fracture, as well as temporal changes in the degree of tooth wear and oral hygiene in this region of Japan.</p>

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Anthropological Science (Japanese Series)

Anthropological Science (Japanese Series) 125 (1), 25-38, 2017

The Anthropological Society of Nippon

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