A Research On The Han-Jin Dynasty Human Skeletons From Shijiaying Graveyard In Ping’an County,Qinghai Province

The research materials of this paper are from the Han-Jin Dynasty Human Skeletons from Shijiaying Graveyard in Ping’an County, Qinghai Province. Shijiaying Graveyard is situationed in hehuang valley of eastern qinghai province. It’s the boundary of loess plateau and qinghai-tibet plateau, the junction of Agricultural civilization and grasslands civilization, the transition regains between Center Plains and remote minority areas. Before Qin and Han dynasties,Ancient Qiang group were mainly activity behaviors in this regain. In the early Western Han Dynasty, the Imperial China captured hehuang valley and performed the immigration frontier policies. The Hans in central plains began mass into the eastern qinghai province. The Han-Jin Dynasty Human Skeletons from Shijiaying Graveyard is the representative ancient ethnology materials. It has a very important academic value in discussing the immigration problem when the Imperial China stabling frontier and dealing with national affairs in the northwest in Han-Jin Dynasty.This dissertation includes five chapters, which is based on the research of the human skeletons from Shijiaying Graveyard in Ping’an County of Qinghai Province, the Han-Jin Dynasty. It is a research with different methods such as demography, anthropometry and ethnology.ChapterⅠ ExordiumIn this chapter, the geographical location and civilization of "Qinghai Province" is introduced, the geographical and historical background of Shijiaying Graveyard is described, and the purpose and explanation theory of the paper is explained.ChapterⅡ A Study on the Population of Ancient Residents on the Human Skeletons from Shijiaying GraveyardIn this chapter, the author discusses the problems about age of death, sex ratioy, demology and biology.ChapterⅢ A Study on Morphological Characteristics and the Racial Type on the Human Skulls from Shijiaying GraveyardIn this chapter, the human skulls of Shijiaying Graveyard are studied by the method of main metric and non-metric characters, and compared in terms of cranial race type.ChapterⅣ A Study on the Genetic Relationship among Groups in Shijiaying, Qinghai Province and Other Related Districts.In this chapter, the study will focus on the genetic relationship between Shijiaying Graveyard and other ancient human groups. And combining the results of the historical research, archaeological research and molecular genetics, the author has a comprehensive analysis and study on crowd constitution, physique changes, species and source of Shijiaying population.ChapterV ConclusionThe chapter makes a summarize about the whole four chapters.