Constitutional-Anthropological Studies on the Inhabitants of Aira District in Japan
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概要
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Nowadays there is a considerable agreement among the opinion of various investi gators with respects to the origin or ancestors of Japanese people. It is generally considered that Japanese people is consisted of a mixed blood of the Ainu race, tl-e northern Tunguses, the Indonesia races, etc. The constitutional-anthropological features of races concerned with the formation of Japanese people were inheritated from onegeneration to another as the rule of heredity, and the marks of the features might not disappear easily. Consequently, scientific investigations on constitutional-anthropologicar features of some district inhabitants together with comparative studies on the characteristic features of the inhabitants with those of the other districts inhabitants lead to make clear of the degrees of near relations among these inhabitants as well as the ancestal fetures of each district inhabitants, and thus the history of the formation of Japanese people become clear.<BR>The present report givee data of our constitutional-anthropological studies on inhabitants of Aira district in Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan, together with someremarks about tribal relations to inhabitants of the other districts in Japan. In thesestudies in 1957, our detailed investigation of 25 items involving bion-retries of body, extremities, herd and face were undertaken with 466 inhabitants in Aira district where lived Hayato (a vigorous, speedy and stout man) who is described as an descendant of HONOSUSARINOMIKOTO in a myth of Kagoshima Prefecture of Japan. The subjects selected for this investigation were confirmed to be the adult men of 20-45 years in age, whose families have settled there for more than 3 generations. The characteristic features of the inhabitants of Aira district were different from those of inhabitants whose ancestors migrated to Tohoku, Hokkaido and the northern districts of Japan. The length-width index of head in the former inhabitants showed to be 82.98+0.17 and to be near to a wide-head type, where as that in the latter inhabitants indicated to be a long-head type.
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