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| black man | Dec 24 2007, 12:07 AM |
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An additional comment concerning this table since you posted it more than once, as far as I remember: IMO it's a good example for mixing samples which aren't comparable. sample: source(s), reported averaged upper facial height in mm. - northern Ainu: Hirai and Debets, 73,2. - southern Ainu: quite a lot of Japanese researchers, 68,8. - northern Honshuites (Tohoku): Yamasaki, 69. - central Honshuites (Hokuriku): Otsuki and Ogata, 69,5. - central Honshuites (Kanto): Morita and Mitsuhashi, 71,2. - western Honshuites (Kinki): Miyamoto 1924 and Kanda 1959, 71,4. - Kyushuites: several Japanese sources, 70,1. - Yoron islanders (near southern Kyushu): Oyama, 70. - Okinawans: Hsü, 65,9. - Chukchi: Debets, 78,4. - Buriats: Debets, 77,2. - "Mongols": Debets, 78. - Liaoning Han(?) pooled with Beijing Han(?): Shima cited by "Hsii" 1948 and Black 1928, 75,7. - Hoklo Taiwanese: Asai, 70,5. - Taiwanese aborigines ("Peipo"): Xu and Yuan, 70,4. - "Koreans": Shima 1934, 73,9. - "SE Asians" pooled: Pietrusewski, 69,5. Why the highlights: - Debets is a well-known Soviet anthropologist and as such should be expected to use the Soviet standard definition for upper facial height: pronasale to subnasale. - As far as I can judge, Shima reported the values of the Liaoning Han and Black the ones of the other Han (from Beijing). What Black reported is indeed a high value but as not as high as the one of the pooled sample. If one concluded that the Liaoning Han sample was so high-faced, that would contradict older values of living samples from Shirokogorov as well as newer ones of living samples from Hao, I think. Shima's Korean sample can be indirectly compared with other Korean samples, too (see somewhere in the posts above). Since the Koreans according to Shima are quite high-faced, this sample might also reflect a measurement standard close to that of the Soviets. I'll possibly go into detail as for the Turko-Mongolian data reported by Soviet researchers somewhere else since I recently found data according to Martin's standards. What is relevant for this topic: e.g. Buriat nasal and facial heights turn out to be only moderately high, which would imply an upper facial height of below 75 according to Martin's standard. Accordingly, the data of Shima (and maybe other Japanese researchers) might be a couple of milimeters too high for Martin's standard. Then the Koreans in the table above would be on average of more intermediate facial height (around 70mm). |
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