Pottery making technique at the Chanlak Dai village, southern Cambodia, is reported through observing that of a potter of the family who introduced pottery making into the village in the late 1930s. This observation will become a baseline for future studies on intra- and inter-village comparisons of pottery making. A provisional comparison with the pottery making in a village in which pottery making in Chanlak Dai is likely to have been eventually originated indicates slight differences on some aspects of the techniques and associated concepts. Further investigations into the pottery making at Chanlak Dai may also be able to clarify factors responsible for the localizaton of pottery making villages in Cambodia.

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The present paper informs about allele frequency distributions for the two VNTR loci (ApoB, D1S80) in Slovak Romanies from Jarovnice and Richnava settlements. The results are compared with the data of non-Romany Slovak population. Thirteen segregating alleles were detected in a total sample of 267 Romany individuals on the locus ApoB. The most frequent alleles were 37 and 35 on the locus for ApoB gene. Genotype 37/37 occurs as the most frequent in Slovak Romany population. 13 alleles were detected in a total sample of 198 Romany individuals on the locus D1S80. Alleles 24 and 18 and genotype 24/24 were the most frequent in Romany individuals.

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Incidence data of 22 cranial nonmetric traits were investigated in the Aeneolithic Yayoi people in the northwestern Kyushu area, and compared with those in Yayoi people in the northern Kyushu area, Yayoi people in Yamaguchi and Jomon people. Smith's Mean Measures of Divergence (MMD) were obtained in 8 groups after addition of modern people in the northwestern Kyushu area and others. Based on these data, principal co-ordinate analysis and cluster analysis were performed. The following results were obtained. The characteristics of the Yayoi people in northwestern Kyushu succeeded the characteristics of Neolithic Jomon people, and differ markedly from Yayoi people of continental lineage. Among the 22 traits, the incidences of supraorbital foramen, biasterionic suture vestige, hypoglossal canal bridging, pterygospinous foramen, transverse zygomatic suture vestige and mylohyoid bridging were greatly different between the Yayoi people in northwestern Kyushu and the Yayoi people of continental lineage. In the northwestern Kyushu area, a marked difference in cranial nonmetric traits was found between Yayoi and modern people. Such a difference probably developed because of the hereditary influence of Yayoi people of continental lineage in and after the Protohistoric Kofun period.

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