陶寺中晚期人骨的种系分析

The Racial Type of the Middle-Later Phases of the Taosi Culture of Shanxi

本文对陶寺文化中晚期墓葬和灰坑中的人骨进行了性别年龄的鉴定和种族类型的分析,并报告了人骨古DNA的分析结果。DNA的分析结果表明墓葬中的人骨和灰坑中的人骨在单倍型的分类上没有差别,属于中国北方人群的常见单倍群。头骨测量特征的多元统计分析显示出灰坑的人骨与二十世纪发掘的陶寺文化早期墓葬中出土的人骨形态距离较远。这个结果可能暗示着陶寺早期人群和中晚期的人群可能有不一样的来源,期望未来对这两个人群的直接的DNA对比结果会有助于来源问题的解决。

New excavations at the Taosi site, Shanxi Province, have recovered many human remains from tombs and ash pits dated to the middle-later phases of the Taosi culture. Osteological examination determined sex identification, age-at-death estimation and population affinity assessment of the skeletal remains. The principal analysis of metrical cranial data showed that the human remains of the middle-later phases were distinct from those of the early phase of Taoshi culture, which was excavated in 1970s and 80s and reported in 1989 the different origins of these two groups of people. Ancient DNA analysis was also conducted and the results failed to demonstrate that there were significant genetic differences between the remains from the tomb and from the ash pits.