Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Add Reply
Possible craniological evidence for migrations of the ancestors of Khalkhs and Oyiraads
Topic Started: Mar 4 2008, 04:25:36 PM (86 Views)
black man
The Right Hand
[ *  *  * ]
In a 2007 AAPA abstract ("A cranial nonmetric study of archaeological and modern populations from Mongolia and Korea") Erdene Myagmar mentions that present-day Mongolians cluster with previous inhabitants of their region rather than with Koreans in a craniological study. A follow-up abstract went more into detail about the Mongolian archaeological populations:

Erdene: "Cranial nonmetric study of archaeological populations from different historical periods of Mongolia"
http://www.physanth.org/annmeet/aapa2008/A...08abstracts.pdf
Quote:
 
A cranial sample consisting of 300 skulls from Mongolia, ranging from the Neolithic period to modern era, was investigated using nonmetric traits. Nonmetric trait frequencies were calculated using the “individual count” method, and 19 traits were selected to calculate biological distances. Cranial nonmetric trait frequencies of pooled-sex and skull incidences for each population were arcsine-transformed and subsequently used to calculate the mean measure of divergence (MMD). Cluster analysis was used to obtain a dendrogram of phylogenetic relationship between the populations compared.

Cluster analysis show two distinct clusters for archaeological and modern populations from Mongolia. The first cluster consisted of the Xiongnu (2nd BC to 2nd AD) and medieval age populations from Central Mongolia. The second cluster is divided further into three subclusters. Bronze age populations from the Central and Eastern Mongolia form the first subcluster with the Iron age samples from the Western Mongolia. The second subcluster is formed by the Bronze age and modern populations from Western Mongolia. Medieval age population from Eastern Mongolia joins to this subcluster. Xiongnu populations from Western Mongolia and modern populations from Central Mongolia are found to be the closest among the studied groups. The next closest groups are Neolithic and Xiongnu samples from Eastern Mongolia. These populations form the third subcluster in the second cluster.


I.e.,

eastern Mongolia: Neolithic => Xiongnu continuity; Bronze Age and medieval population seems to have moved to the west
central Mongolia: Khalkh(?) similar to Xiongnu found in western Mongolia; Bronze Age and medieval population seems to have moved to the west
western Mongolia: Bronze Age => Oyiraad(?) or Kazak(?) continuity; Xiongnu descendants might have moved to the east
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · Ethnohistorical Studies of Mongolic ethnic, tribal and clan groups · Next Topic »
Add Reply