山形県村山盆地人の体質人類学的研究

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A biometric study was conducted in Murayama, basin Yamagata Prefecture, Japan, in February 1956 for the purpose of finding out anthropological characeristics of inhabitans of Murayama basin. North Murayama County, East Murayama County and West Murayama County which were relatively in isolated, from brood mixture with other communities were chosen and 625 adult males were studied with reference to the anthropological measurement of the trunk, limbs, head and face. On the basis of 27 items obtained from the direct measurement and subsequent computation, detailed analysis were available.
To sum up, it can be said that - judging from the results of the mesurement of qualties considered most valuable in consititional anthropology, the inhabitants of the Murayama basin of the Yamagata Prefecture possess a closer affinity to the Iwashiro Atami inhabitants adjoint to them by a high way, rather than to the Shonai inhabitants who although of the same Yamagata Prefecture are cut off from the Murayama basin by the Dewa Mountain Range.
This is due to the fact that the Shonai district facing theJapan Sea was Shonai inhabitants than there mountain-blocked neighbours.