Acta Anthropologica Sinica ›› 2026, Vol. 45 ›› Issue (04): 683-694.doi: 10.16359/j.1000-3193/AAS.2025.0051

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Skull morphology of the residents from the Shuanghuaishu site in Henan

ZHOU Yawei1(), FU Rongyu2, GU Wanfa3   

  1. 1 School of Archaeology and Cultural Heritage, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001
    2 School of Archaeology, Jilin University, Changchun 130012
    3 Zhengzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, Zhengzhou 450052
  • Received:2024-09-26 Revised:2025-03-30 Online:2026-08-15 Published:2026-08-12

Abstract:

The skulls of the Yangshao culture excavated from the Shuanghuaishu site were observed and measured. The skull features of the Shuanghuaishu group are characterized by a middle cranial type, medium broad nose type, lower medium orbital type, broad palate type, medium to large facial flatness, flat jaw type, weak eyebrow arch development, round and blunt orbital margin, simple cranial parietal suture, weakly developed canine fossa and nasopharyngeal fossa. The residents of the Shuanghuaishu site exhibited a mixture of East Asian and South Asian types of modern Asian Mongoloids, and their physiques were similar to those of the modern population in South China. When compared with ancient groups, the male group from Shuanghuaishu is most closely related to the combined Yangshao group, the Xishan group, the Wanggou group, and the Sunzhuang group. Similar conclusions can be drawn for the female group. After comprehensive analysis, we conclude that the ancient residents of the Shuanghuaishu site belong to the “Paleo-Central Plains type” group. During the late Neolithic period, the ancient residents in the middle reaches of the Yellow River showed relatively consistent ethnographic characteristics.

Key words: Shuanghuaishu site, skull, morphology

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