国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
『東洋文庫所蔵』貴重書デジタルアーカイブ

Groups. | Investigator. | Index.

Modern French, male. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 74.5
Lothringer I (before the XIX century) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 74.1
Lothringer II, male and female . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 72.4
Negroes, different origins. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 72.4
Bajuvars. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Lehman-Nitsche | 72.2
Senoi and Semang . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Martin | about 67
Negrito, male and female, I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 64.5
Negrito, male and female, II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 64.7
Negrito, male and female, III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 65.7
Andamanese, male (measured in middle of diaphysis) . . . | Flower | 64.7
New Caledonians. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 63.5
Aino . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Koganei | 63.5
Dolmen of Port Blanc I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 63.3
Dolmen of Port Blanc II. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 64.3
Upper California Indians I. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 63.7
Upper California Indians II . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 60.2
Upper California Indians III . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 59.2
Upper California Indians IV. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 62.7
Prehistoric tibiae of Peigneux. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Manouvrier | 62.8
Weddas, males. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Sarasin | 60.5

Thus our Anau tibia with an index of 61.5 approaches the extremest form that is found as a mean value in a race.

As was remarked above, platycnemy is usually most pronounced in the upper third of the bone. On the other hand, P. and F. Sarasin found in the tibiae of the Weddas that the flattening extended over the upper two-thirds. It is so also in the Anau tibia. Instead of diminishing from the foramen nutritivum (fig. 494, b), it increases downward, so that in the middle of the diaphysis (fig. 494, c) we find an index of only 61.1.

The already mentioned curvature of the tibia forward, which is not rarely connected with platycnemy and has shared with this and with the pilaster formation of the femur the fate of being declared rachitic, is clearly expressed on our tibia (plate 95, fig. 5). Also, the posterior surface is more concave than is usual, for instance, among recent Europeans.

In order to measure the amount of this curvature for comparison with others, one must lay a straight line from the lowest point (the tibia lying horizontal) below the tuberosity to the deepest point above the edge of the distal joint and measure the height of the ante or edge above this line. This method gives with our tibia a height of 7 mm. Since the distance between the two above-named points is about 230 mm., we find, by expressing the height in percentage of the chord, an index of 3.1. Unfortunately no investigations, so far as I can learn, have been made of this peculiarity of form, which we might use for comparison. Only Manouvrier mentions that he found it in the Guanches together with platy-