| Abstract: |
Human skeletal remains from the Ikawazu and Tsukumo sites were examined to obtain an insight into post-marital residential patterns in the Final Jomon period. Using tooth crown measurements, Q-mode correlation coefficients were calculated to determine the biological affinity among skeletal remains, and to test Harunari's hypothesis on Jomon kinship structure. Non-metric cranial variants were also used to address the same issue. The results suggest that both the male and female populations of a Jomon village consisted of a significant number of kin, and that both male and female individuals could remain residential members of their community of origin after marriage. It is highly likely that this pattern was produced as a result of the operation of a bilateral principle. Although the results obtained in this paper refuted Harunari's hypothesis, they support an important implication of the hypothesis that the dominant post-marital residential pattern in the Jomon period was bilocal.
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