Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 2005, Vol. 24 ›› Issue (03): 188-197.

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Racial type of ancient human skulls from Kizil cemetery, Baicheng County, Xinjiang

CHEN Liang, WANG Yang   

  • Online:2005-09-15 Published:2005-09-15

Abstract: 23 human skulls excavated from 11 ancient tombs in Kizil, Baicheng county, Xinjiang, have been measured and observed. Some indexes and angles were calculated. The statistics combined with other 25 ancient groups located nearby and Centra-l Asia were compared directly and analyzed with Cluster Analysis and Principle Component Analysis. All results have been shown that the ancient Kizil population belong to Caucasoid, they have close relation to the Indo-Afghan racial type of the east branch of the Mediterranean.

Key words: Kizil; Caucasoid; Mediterranean type