Original scientific paper
Relationship of Chinese Tungusic ethnic minorities with Okhotsk cultural people in regard to dental metric traits
Shota Kataoka
; Kyushu Dental University
Shigeru Kobayashi
Masanori Iwasaki
Toshihiro Ansai
Abstract
We used crown measurements to analyze the anthropological characteristics of three Tungusic tribes, Ewenki, Hezhen, and Oroqen, residing in the Amur River basin of China. Previous findings suggest that Amur River basin populations were involved in the population structure of Tungusic people. We then compared our findings with those of individuals with a north Asian ethnic background to examine the distribution of those characteristics in north Asian Mongoloids (1). The total crown area was classified as Sinodont (2). A deviation diagram showed scant differences among Hezhen, Oroqen, and Okhotsk individuals, indicating the closeness of those populations (3). Q-mode correlation coefficients and 2-dimensional expression suggested that Tungusic individuals were the Central Asia type. Hezhen and Oroqen were plotted closer to Okhotsk cultural people, and closely related. Race mixture occurred among the Baikal, then spread from Lake Baikal and Central Asia from the south in the post-Neolithic Era, and the groups gradually diffused to the lower Amur region. Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that a different degree of miscegenation occurred between the Baikal and Central Asian regions in the area from Lake Baikal to lower Amur in accordance with the geographical features.
Keywords
Tungusic; Hezhen; Evenki; Oroqen; crown measurements
Hrčak ID:
140721
URI
Publication date:
30.6.2015.
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