Craniometrical evidence for population admixture between Eastern and Western Eurasians in Bronze Age southwest Xinjiang  

作　　者：TAN JingZe LI LiMing ZHANG JianBo FU WenQing , GUAN HaiJuan2, AO Xue2,WANG LingE1, WU XinHua3, HAN KangXin3, JIN Li1'2 & LI Hui1'2. FU WenQing GUAN HaiJuan AO Xue WANG LingE WU XinHua HAN KangXin JIN Li LI Hui[1,2] 

机构地区：[1]Key Laboratory of Contemporary Anthropology (Ministry of Education), School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China [2]Shanghai Society of Anthropology, Shanghai 200433, China [3]Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Beijing 100710, China

出　　处：《Chinese Science Bulletin》2013年第3期299-306,共8页

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(31071102,31071098,30890034,91131002);National Outstanding Youth Science Foundation of China(30625016);Natural Science Foundation of Shanghai(10ZR1402200);Philosophy and Social Science Foundation of Shanghai(2010BZH005);Shanghai Commission of Education Research Innovation Key Project(11zz04);Shanghai Professional Development Funding(2010001)

摘　　要：Xinjiang,the most northwest provincial administrative area of China,was the area where the oriental people met the occidental.The populations in Xinjiang exhibit very high genetic diversity.Previous study revealed that the eastern Xinjiang populations of the Bronze Age were mixed by the Eastern and the Western Eurasians.However,few studies have been performed to reveal when the population admixture started and how far to the west it reached.In this paper,we studied 148 craniofacial traits of 18 skulls from the Bronze Age Liushui graveyard in Khotan(Keriya County) in the southwest of Xinjiang.Seventeen craniometrical parameters of the Khotan samples were then compared with those of other ancient samples from around Xinjiang using dendrogram cluster analysis,principal components analysis,and multidimensional scaling.The results indicated that population sample of Liushui graveyard was mixed by the Western and Eastern Eurasians with about 79% contribution from the east.Therefore,we demonstrated that population admixture between east and west Eurasia can be traced back to as early as 1000 BC in southwest Xinjiang.Xinjiang, the most northwest provincial administrative area of China, was the area where the oriental people met the occidental. The populations in Xinjiang exhibit very high genetic diversity. Previous study revealed that the eastern Xinjiang populations of the Bronze Age were mixed by the Eastern and the Western Eurasians. However, few studies have been performed to reveal when the population admixture started and how far to the west it reached. In this paper, we studied 148 craniofacial traits of 18 skulls from the Bronze Age Liushui graveyard in Khotan （Keriya County） in the southwest of Xinjiang. Seventeen craniometrical pa- rameters of the Khotan samples were then compared with those of other ancient samples from around Xinjiang using dendrogram cluster analysis, principal components analysis, and multidimensional scaling. The results indicated that population sample of Liushui graveyard was mixed by the Western and Eastern Eurasians with about 79% contribution from the east. Therefore, we demonstrated that population admixture between east and west Eurasia can be traced back to as early as 1000 BC in southwest Xinjiang.

关 键 词：青铜时代 西南部 新疆 西部 人口 种群遗传多样性 外加剂 证据 

分 类 号：K924.5[历史地理—人文地理学]