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Yean-ri people of the Gaya confederacy
Topic Started: May 2 2018, 10:01:29 PM (50 Views)
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Jung and Woo 2017 write, Yean-ri people were possibly different from all other peoples of the Korean peninsular because they deformed the skulls of their children. According to Fujita et al. 2013, they ate rather hard food. Since they were both culturally and geographically peripheral, their language might have been different from other Gaya languages as well.

More details could be interesting in the contexts on research on matrilocality and gender parallelisms in premodern East Asia as well. As studies on artificial head deformation in the premodern Americas indicate, the presence of artificial head deformation might have correlated with matricinity if not matrilocality, gender parallelisms and a kind of militant androcracy. That said, Jeju-do, a relatively large island to the south of Jeolla, is associated with both matrivicinity and gender parallelisms. Moreover, the spread of mtDNA hg N9 in Jejudo and at least part of Jeolla could hint to an ancient ethnographic substratum common to at least some southernmost Korean populations.




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Yean-ri medieval Korean physical anthropology

Takenaka 1994: "Morphological traits of crania in modern Kyongsangnam-do Koreans"
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7847048
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The crania of modern Kyongsangnam-do or Southeastern Koreans were examined metrically and nonmetrically. In comparison with those of several modern samples from the northeastern Asia, the modern Kyongsangnam-do crania are characterized by their brachycranic and high cranial vaults as well as their high facial skeletons with the flat frontal and zygomaxillary regions. The modern Kyongsangnam-do shows a close affinity to the modern Central Koreans in the analyses of metric and nonmetric cranial traits. In the same Kyongsangnam-do, the cranial vaults are higher and shorter, and the nasal bones are not flatter in the modern than in the Yean-ri (4th to 7th century A.D.) samples. However, both the modern and the Yean-ri have morphological cranial traits similar to Asian continental Mongoloid in terms of the large upper facial height, the flatness in the frontal and zygomaxillary regions, and the close relationship of Smith's MMD based on 22 nonmetric cranial traits. Thus, it is suggested that these cranial traits, which are common with those of the Asian continental Mongoloid, have been kept from the Yean-ri to the modern Koreans in Kyongsangnam-do.
Edited by black man, May 3 2018, 09:57:00 PM.
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