Morphologic and Genetic Evidence for the Kinship of Juvenile Skeletal Specimens from a 2,000 Year-old Double Burial of the Usu-Moshiri Site, Hokkaido, Japan

This paper presents a case study of a double burial at the 2,000 year-old Usu-Moshiri Epi-Jomon site in Hokkaido, Japan, using detailed odontometric analysis in conjunction with mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) analysis in order to more precisely assess their kinship. Consanguinity between the two juvenile...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Anthropological Science 2003, Vol.111(3), pp.347-363
Hauptverfasser:	Adachi, Noboru, Dodo, Yukio, Ohshima, Naoyuki, Doi, Naomi, Yoneda, Minoru, Matsumura, Hirofumi
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	ancient DNA Anthropology Burial Genetics Japan Mitochondrial DNA Morphology multiple burial odontological kinship analysis prehistoric Japan Statistical analysis tooth size proportion
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