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＠Noriko Seguchi,＠James Frances Loftus III, ＠Shiori Yonemoto, Mary-Margaret Murphy, Investigating intentional cranial modification: A hybridized two-dimensional/three-dimensional study of the Hirota site, Tanegashima, Japan, PLOS ONE, https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0289219, 2023.08. |
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Kenji Okazaki, Hirofumi Takamuku, Shiori Yonemoto, Yu Itahashi, Takashi Gakuhari, Minoru Yoneda, Jie Chen, A paleopathological approach to early human adaptation for wet-rice agriculture
The first case of Neolithic spinal tuberculosis at the Yangtze River Delta of China, International Journal of Paleopathology, 10.1016/j.ijpp.2019.01.002, 24, 236-244, 2019.03, The earliest evidence of human tuberculosis can be traced to at least the early dynastic periods, when full-scaled wet-rice agriculture began or entered its early developmental stages, in circum-China countries (Japan, Korea, and Thailand). Early studies indicated that the initial spread of tuberculosis coincided with the development of wet-rice agriculture. It has been proposed that the adaptation to agriculture changed human social/living environments, coincidentally favoring survival and spread of pathogenic Mycobacterial strains that cause tuberculosis. Here we present a possible case of spinal tuberculosis evident in the remains of a young female (M191) found among 184 skeletal individuals who were Neolithic wet-rice agriculturalists from the Yangtze River Delta of China, associated with Songze culture (3900–3200 B.C.). This early evidence of tuberculosis in East Asia serves as an example of early human morbidity following the adoption of the wet-rice agriculture.. |
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Seguchi Noriko, Mary-Margaret Murphy, Yonemoto Shiori., Validity assessment: Validity testing of mixed data by multiple devices, methods, and observers., 3D Data Acquisition for Bioarchaeology, Forensic Anthropology and Archaeology, 103-130, 2019.12. |
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Noriko Seguchi, Conrad B. Quintyn, Shiori Yonemoto, Hirofumi Takamuku, An assessment of postcranial indices, ratios, and body mass versus eco-geographical variables of prehistoric Jomon, Yayoi agriculturalists, and Kumejima Islanders of Japan, American Journal of Human Biology, 10.1002/ajhb.23015, 29, 5, 2017.09, Objectives: We explore variations in body and limb proportions of the Jomon hunter-gatherers (14,000–2500 BP), the Yayoi agriculturalists (2500–1700 BP) of Japan, and the Kumejima Islanders of the Ryukyus (1600–1800 AD) with 11 geographically diverse skeletal postcranial samples from Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia, and North America using brachial-crural indices, femur head-breadth-to-femur length ratio, femur head-breadth-to-lower-limb-length ratio, and body mass as indicators of phenotypic climatic adaptation. Specifically, we test the hypothesis that variation in limb proportions seen in Jomon, Yayoi, and Kumejima is a complex interaction of genetic adaptation; development and allometric constraints; selection, gene flow and genetic drift with changing cultural factors (i.e., nutrition) and climate. METHODS: The skeletal data (1127 individuals) were subjected to principle components analysis, Manly's permutation multiple regression tests, and Relethford-Blangero analysis. RESULTS: The results of Manly's tests indicate that body proportions and body mass are significantly correlated with latitude, and minimum and maximum temperatures while limb proportions were not significantly correlated with these climatic variables. Principal components plots separated “climatic zones:” tropical, temperate, and arctic populations. The indigenous Jomon showed cold-adapted body proportions and warm-adapted limb proportions. Kumejima showed cold-adapted body proportions and limbs. The Yayoi adhered to the Allen-Bergmann expectation of cold-adapted body and limb proportions. Relethford-Blangero analysis showed that Kumejima experienced gene flow indicated by high observed variances while Jomon experienced genetic drift indicated by low observed variances. CONCLUSIONS: The complex interaction of evolutionary forces and development/nutritional constraints are implicated in the mismatch of limb and body proportions.. |
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SHIORI YONEMOTO, Differences in the Effects of Age on the Development of Entheseal Changes Among Historical Japanese Populations, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 10.1002/ajpa.22870, 159, 2, 267-283, 2016.02. |
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Moreno Quiroga Jacobo, Izumoto Chika, Kaneko Kosuke, Yonemoto Shiori, Kim Daewoong, Planning and Developing a Museum Outreach Program for Schools -Bringing educational content from the museum to the classroom through digital and physical materials-, International journal of Asia digital art and design, 20, 2, 51-59, 2016.05. |
