A Jomon-Featured Skull in a Big Yayoi Pottery at the Hatakenaka Site, Uto City, the Southern End of the Distribution of the Big Yayoi Pottery Culture

Abstract

A Yayoi skeleton was found in a big Yayoi pottery at the Hatakenaka site, Uto City, Kumamoto Prefecture (Fig. 1). This Yayoi skeleton was judged to belong to a young adult female, and based on FUJII's formula, her stature was estimated to be 146.6cm. Her head was brachycephalic and her face was broad and slightly prognathic (Fig. 2). The PENROSE's shape distance (CZ2 in Table 2) indicates that the skull of this Yayoi skeleton resembles well the Jomon ancients in the Kumamoto region rather than the Yayoi ancients at the Doigahama site and in the North-western Kyushu.