Craniofacial variation between southern and northern Neolithic and Modern Chinese

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	Craniofacial variation between southern and northern Neolithic and Modern Chinese
	Wu, X. J.1; Liu, W.1; Bae, C. J.2
	2012
发表期刊	INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY
卷号	22 期号:1 页码:98-109
文章类型	Article
摘要	Previous studies propose that the Yangtze River is the geographic boundary separating northern and southern Chinese populations. In order to test this hypothesis, 19 Neolithic and 15 Modern human cranial samples from north of the Qinling Mountain Range, south of the Yangtze River and in between were chosen for morphometric analysis. Our results indicate that cranial variation exists in Holocene Neolithic and Modern northern and southern Chinese. In the Neolithic sample, the northern Chinese crania are characterised by greater upper face height and orbit height, while the southern Chinese skulls are depicted by a wider nose. The morphology of the crania between the Qinling Mountain range and the Yangtze River feature a mosaic of characters that suggest affiliation with both north and south groups. In the Modern day sample, northern crania are characterised by a broad and wide face, and a tall nose. From the Neolithic to Modern day, a series of microevolutionary processes that apply to both the northern and southern samples can be discerned. Overall, the head gets lower, the face and nose become narrower and the orbits tend to be narrower and higher. Our results support the suggestion that the Qinling Mountain Range and the Yangtze River represent a natural barrier to the movement of Chinese populations. Climatic variation and the transition to an agricultural lifestyle are proposed as the primary factors influencing human craniofacial morphologies. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
关键词	Craniometric Variation Modern Day Neolithic Age Northern Chinese Southern Chinese
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
关键词[WOS]	Y-CHROMOSOME EVIDENCE ; LATE PLEISTOCENE ; EAST-ASIA ; HOLOCENE ; POPULATIONS ; MICROEVOLUTION ; HISTORY ; ORIGIN
收录类别	SSCI ; AHCI
语种	英语
WOS研究方向	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS类目	Anthropology ; Archaeology
WOS记录号	WOS:000299207900007
引用统计
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.205/handle/311034/7201
专题	中科院古脊椎所（2000年以后）
作者单位	1.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Vertebrate Paleontol & Paleoanthropol, Key Lab Evolutionary Systemat Vertebrates, Beijing 100044, Peoples R China 2.Univ Hawaii Manoa, Dept Anthropol, Honolulu, HI 96822 USA
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Wu, X. J.,Liu, W.,Bae, C. J.. Craniofacial variation between southern and northern Neolithic and Modern Chinese[J]. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,2012,22(1):98-109.
APA	Wu, X. J.,Liu, W.,&Bae, C. J..(2012).Craniofacial variation between southern and northern Neolithic and Modern Chinese.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY,22(1),98-109.
MLA	Wu, X. J.,et al."Craniofacial variation between southern and northern Neolithic and Modern Chinese".INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY 22.1(2012):98-109.