青海循化阿哈特拉山古墓地人骨研究

A STUDY OF THE HUMAN BONES FROM THE ANCIENT CEMETERY ON AHATLA HILL IN XUNHUA,QINGHAI

近年来,青海境内发掘了大量卡约文化墓葬,从中采集到大量人骨。过去对青海境内古代人骨的研究很少,仅见民和阳山和乐都柳湾两墓地人骨报告,但每批人骨的数量并不多。最近,从湟中县李家山下西河村潘家梁卡约文化墓地采集的一批人骨已有研究,其中最重要的结果也提前引用在探讨藏族体质特征及其种族属性的一篇论文里。论文认为。

The present paper discusses the human bones from the Kayao culture cemetery on Ahatla Hill at Tuolundu,Xunhua,Qinghai.Of this batch of material,altogether 165 individuals were identified as to their sexual and age features,and 33 intact skulls(23 male and 10 female)among them were examined and measured morphologically.In this paper,the author concentrates his main attention on the racial morphologic character of the remains of Kayao culture people from the cemetery.It is pointed out that in physique,they belong to the East Mongoloid group of Asia,notably featuring similarity to the skeletons from Huoshaogou,Gansu,and the plebeian people's cemetery on the Yin Ruins,as well as to the physical structure of the modern North Chinese.Roughly to the same degree they resemble the skeletons of the East Tibetans,but the relationship between the two groups is not so close as that between the human remains from the Huangzhong Lijiashan site of the Kayao culture and the physical structure of the East Tibetans.It is mainly due to the fact that the Ahatla human bones bear more distinct features of the East Asian race in comparison with the Lijiashan group as the Mongoloid character of the latter was somewhat weakened.It is noteworthy whether the morphologic variation of the Kayao culture human bones suggest that this region was influenced by the racial elements spread from the east to the west.