Hanihara T
Department of Anatomy, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 1997 Nov;104(3):411-25. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199711)104:3<411::AID-AJPA10>3.0.CO;2-2.
Metric craniofacial variation was studied in a number of skeletal samples that originated from the Mariana Islands and circum-Pacific regions. The broad comparisons including East/Southeast Asians, Polynesians, Melanesians, and Australians confirm the relationships between Mariana Islanders and East/Southeast Asians on the one hand and Polynesians on the other hand. A transformation of Melanesians into western Micronesians is not supported. The result of the principal component analysis indicates that the cranial morphological pattern of Mariana people shares the intermediate characteristics between those of typical East/Southeast Asians and several groups falling as outliers to more predominant Asian populations.
对一些来自马里亚纳群岛和环太平洋地区的骨骼样本进行了颅骨面部测量变异研究。广泛的比较包括东亚/东南亚人、波利尼西亚人、美拉尼西亚人和澳大利亚人，证实了马里亚纳岛民一方面与东亚/东南亚人，另一方面与波利尼西亚人之间的关系。美拉尼西亚人向密克罗尼西亚西部人的转变这一观点未得到支持。主成分分析结果表明，马里亚纳人的颅骨形态模式具有典型东亚/东南亚人与一些作为更主要亚洲人群离群值的群体之间的中间特征。
