"One location in Japan that has long been associated with cranial deformation is the Hirota site on the Japanese island of Tanegashima, in Kagoshima Prefecture. This is a large-scale burial site of the Hirota people who lived there during the end of the Yayoi Period, around the 3rd century CE, to the Kofun Period, between the 5th and 7th century CE," explains Noriko Seguchi of Kyushu University's Faculty of Social and Cultural Studies who led the study.
Photograph of the Hirota site today in Tanegashima, Japan. Each marker indicates where burials were found along with the notes on their sex and approximate age group. Credit: The Kyushu University Museum To conduct the study, the research group employed a hybrid approach, utilizing 2D images to analyze the shape of the skulls' outline, as well as 3D scans of their surface. The group also compared crania data from otherin Japan, such as the Doigahama Yayoi people in Western Yamaguchi, and the Kyushu Island Jomon people, who were the hunter-gatherer predecessors to the Yayoi people.
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