Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon

Population Studies of Serum Protein Variations in Japanese

Goichi ISHIMOTO, Kei-ichi UEMURA, Tasuku TOYOMASU, Tasuku TOYOMASU

1967 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages 43-51
Published: 1967
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.75.43

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The distributions of group-specific component, haptoglobin and transf errin phenntypes were researched in the blood donors living in Chiba Prefecture (in the suburbs of Tokyo). Blood materials were classfied into several populations according to habitants of individual donors, and the regional differences of each frequency were examined.
The results are shown in Table 1, 2 and 3a. No regional differences were observed in the frequencies of group specific component and haptoglobin types and no rare types of those serum proteins were detected. The obtained results were compared with the frequencies on Japanese reported by other investigators, which were presented in Table 3b, 4 and 5.

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On the Excavation of Tokachiputo Site

Takeru AKAZAWA

1967 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages 52-68
Published: 1967
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.75.52

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The site Tokachiputo, Tokachi-gun, Hokkaido, is located at about 30 meters above sea level on a hill, some three hundred meters north from the mouth of the Tokachi River (Fig. I). Our digging work was carried out in the period from July 17 to 25 in 1965. We excavated two pit-dwelling sites of the so-called Satsumon Pottery Period.
Dwelling-pit, No. 1 having a rectangular ground-plan measured at 640cm. by 590cm., showed traces of 4 postholes (Fig. II), while No. 2, an indeterminate rec- tangle about 450cm. by 400cm., had only 3 holes (Fig. VII). Each of them had a hearth in the center of the floor and also a remain of a kiln at the southeast wall (Fig. VI). The artificial relics from these pits consist entirely of pottery which includes deep bowls and pedestalled bowls belonging to the Satsumon Period (Fig. VIII).
These facts showed that both pits have great resemblance to those from other sites of the same period, in such features as ground-plans, interior establishments, artificial relics etc.. The dwelling-pits, however, showed some new facts as in the following :
1. It is estimated that the bright yellow layer, lying outside the wall under the first layer, was the then surface of the earth when the dwelling-pit was dug (Fig. II, VII).
2. It is estimated that the inner part of the black layer (the third layer), beingpiled up outside and inside of the pit constantly, was the earth covering of the roof (Fig. II, VII, IX).
3, On the floor of the pit No. 1 there were many pieces of carbonized wood (Salix sachalinensis Fr. Schmidt) and grass (Phragmites communis Trinius), much of them showing uniform arrangement and direction. They were parhaps used as the construction materials (Fig.II, IV, V).
4. The circumferential region of the floor of the pit No. 1 was covered with parched soil, which is thicker near the wall, and not found in the center. The feature seems to suggest that the smokehole would be in the center of the roof and it served as doorway.
5. Inside the pit No. 1 along the northeast wall, a low and wide earthen bench was made.

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A Note on the Classification of Human Physique by Principal Component Analysis

Teruko FUKUSHIMA

1967 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages 69-82
Published: 1967
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.75.69

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(1) In order to make more comprehensive and statistically efficient indicators of a human physique, principal component analysis was applied to the anthropometric measurements. The subject used in this study comprised 200 Japanese female university students, who were measured on 30 items of measurements as well as photographed with three standardized pose. Further object of this report was to compare the results obtained with those derived from the data of 256 soldiers by MASUDA.
(2) The interpretations of the principal components were made mainly on the basis of the coefficients of measurements in each component and also by reference to the photographs of the subjects. The first three principal components were interpreted as a size factor of a human physique, as a shape factor expressing lean-obese relation, and as a shape factor expressing shoulder shape. The percentages of the variances accounted for by each principal component to the total variance and the sum of them were approximately 41.0%, 16.3%, 6.6%, and 63.9%, respectively.
(3) As to the meanings of the first two principal components, a perfect accordance was found between the present results and those of MASUDA. The interpretations were also confirmed by the result of HAMMOND, who had applied factor analysis to the data from 2967 children in Britain. The fact suggested the possibility of taking the first two principal components, that is, a size factor and a shape factor expressing lean-obese relation, as the best two indicators of a human physique irrespective race, sex and age.
(4) As to the meaning of the third principal component, and as to the contribution ratios of each principal component to 30 measurements, the present results differed slightly from the results of MASUDA. The differences may be ascribed to the nature of the subjects and the initial choice of the measurements.

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An Additional Skull Cap of a Pithecanthropus

S. SARTONO

1967 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages 83-93
Published: 1967
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.75.83

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Craniometrical Study of the Tohoku Japanese Skulls

Masabumi YAMASAKI, Masahiro YAMASAKI, Sanae KANDA, Kojiro KURISU

1967 Volume 75 Issue 2 Pages 94-99
Published: 1967
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DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.75.94

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Craniometrical data of the Japanese have been collected by many authors, regionally and chronologically. But we lack the data of the Toxoxu Japanese up to the present.
The late Prof. M. YAMASAKI have had a project to study the Toxoxu Japanese skulls and collected the skulls in Toxoxu University. It is a great regret that neither study nor publication were completed. Prof. R. URA, Prof. T. MORI and Prof. M. KoHAMA discussed on the importances of the craniometrical data of the Toxoxu Japanese in Oct., 1965 and agreed upon the pursuit of this study by the following members; S. KANDA and M. YAMASAKI reexamined the craniometrical data of the late Prof. YAMASAKI'S except for the items of angles, capacities and weights of the skulls. K. KURISU calculated the whole data by his programing. The extraordinary small or large data are rejected by the SMIRNOFF'S method on the checking level to be 0.01.
The data are shown in Tables 1-3.
The authors desire that the data are utilized by many investigaters in variousfields and wait some fruitful results in future.

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