Journal of the Anthropological Society of Nippon
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Volume 80, Issue 4
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  • An Anthropological Studty on Digital Hair
    [in Japanese]
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 283-299
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.283
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    An investigation on digital hair in Japanese, Korean, Formosan, Canadian white and American Indian (Ojibway) subjests consisting of 7081 males and 8276 females of various age, and 67 monkeys consisting of 51 Cercopithecus aethiops and 16 Macaca irus was conducted.
    The results are as follows:
    1. Digital hair of both hands was almost symmetrical, therefore the digital hair of left hand only was subsequently examined.
    2. P2, P3, P4 and P5 of most subjects were hairy. M2 of most subjects were hairless. The appearance of digital hair on P1, M3 and M4 was varied by person, sex and race and showed little variation by age. There were seasonal changes in digital hair in some subjects.
    3. Digital hair of P4 showed the most frequent appearance, followed by P3, P5, P2, P1, M4. M3, M5 and M2 in that order. The abundance of hair of respective digital segments showed a similar order.
    4. Sixty-seven monkeys were almost hairy at proximal and middle segments of all digits, but one Macaca irus was hairless only at M2 segment.
    5. The appearance of P1 digital hair and mid-digital hair was seen less frequently in Ojibway subjects and showed an increasing frequency in Japanese, Korean and European Canadians.
    6. A different appearance of digital hair was observed in Akita, Toku-no-shima population and Ibusuki population belonging to Japanese with different habitats and environments.
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  • An Introduction to the Anthropology of Legs
    Robust Thick-Leg and Slender Stick-Leg
    Kozi TUBAKI, Hajime TAMURA
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 300-318
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.300
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    Many of the people of Japan have thick and robust legs. In particular many Japanese women have large, thick, sometimes fatty and baggy legs. Because we are familiar with this form, we assume it is natural and consider this leg morphology normal.
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  • Skeletal Maturation in Japanese
    A New Analytical Method
    Kunihiko KIMURA
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 319-336
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.319
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    Based on the radiographs of the right or left hand and wrist in three groups of Japanes children aged 0 to 18 years investigated in Tokyo in 1963 and 1970, and in Sapporo in 1959, a new assessing and analytical method for skeletal maturation was devised, and the skeletal maturation in Japanese and its sexual and local differences were discussed according to the method. In the new method, it is devised to contribute equally three bone areas (the phalanges and metacarpals, the carpals and the radius and ulna) each to the total maturity score, adopting the indicators by GREULICH &amp; PYLE (1959) for the point scores of each bone and epiphysis. The maturity score is expressed in the values from 0 to 100. A significant linear regression relation was recognized between ages and the maturity scores. It was certainly suggested that the new method was the useful one for assessment and comparison of skeletal maturation in a population or populations, especially based on crosssectional radiographs.
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  • Blood Protein Variation in Asian Macaques
    II. Red Cell Enzymes
    Goichi ISHIMOTO
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 337-350
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.337
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    The discoveries by the electrophoretic method of red cell enzyme variations in man, have stimulated the study of such enzymes in non-human primates. We, therefore, analyzed the red cell enzymes, acid phosphatase, phosphoglucomutase, 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase, phosphohexose isomerase, NADH diaphorase of nearly one thousand samples from six species of macaques. This paper describes the results on the five enzyme variations observed in several population groups of Asian macaques.
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  • The Ecological Study of the Sea-Food Gatherers on Rocky Coast
    Role of Age and Sex in Time-Space Structure of Human Ecological System
    Takashi IRIMOTO
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 351-373
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.351
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    The relationships between the local population of Kawa-Guchi and his natural environment through the subsistence activities, are studied from the ecological point of view with special reference to the age and sex division of labour. In the field researches based on a direct observation method, the activity groups, which are formed with the differentiation of the patterns of activities, are revealed. The age and sex composition of the each activity groups are explained, and time and space exploited by the groups are described. Then, as a total relationships between local population and his natural surroundings, temporal and spatial structure of human ecological system is cleared up. Lastly, it is pointed out that age and sex as the most basic physical and intellectual background of man is one of the factors constructing human ecological system through the distribution of activities on that system.
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  • Preservation of Bone Tissue of Human Remains from Jomon Sites
    Yasuo FUKUSHIMA
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 374-380
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.374
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    Thin sections for the microscopic observation were made of human remains from five Jomon sites; Miyakojima, Ebishima, Ubayama, Ikawazu and Yosekura. These sites except Yosekura which is a cave site of limestone, are shell mounds. The bone pieces considered as a part of long bone were embedded in Metacrylate and Polyester, and were sliced about 500μ thick and ground off 100μ thick or thinner. Some of these sections were stained by Hematoxylin and Eosin. Bone tissues of these samples are destroyed greatly. The best preserved samples are from Ubayama, but their lamellar structures are destroyed. On the samples from Ikawazu, only traces of Haversian or Volkmann's canals can be found and even the polarization microscope scarcely shows collagen fibers. Burned bone from Yosekura has better preserved lamellar structures than the unburned one, but collagen fiber is not well preserved.
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  • [title in Japanese]
    [in Japanese], [in Japanese], [in Japanese]
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 381-383
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.381
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  • Banding Pattern in Chromosomes of a Female Chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes)
    Using Giemsa-Stain Techniques
    Momoki HIRAI
    1972 Volume 80 Issue 4 Pages 384-389
    Published: 1972
    Released on J-STAGE: February 26, 2008
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1537/ase1911.80.384
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