近年来,在新疆、辽宁、吉林、黑龙江、青海和内蒙古等地出土了一些有关古代车师、鲜卑、高句丽、渤海、吐蕃和契丹等族的人骨资料。吉林大学边疆考古研究中心承担的教育部人文社会科学重点研究基地重大项目课题组对这些古人骨资料进行了体质人类学和分子考古学研究,取得了一批重要的学术成果,填补了多项该领域学术研究的空白。
In this article, some of the ancient human skulls unearthed from the cemeteries of Han Dynasty and the following periods in Xinjiang, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Qinghai and Inner Mongolia were studied. Those skulls were from the population of Cheshi(车师), Xianbei(鲜卑), Koguryo, Bohai, Tibetan and Qidan, etc. These ancient skulls have been studied from point of view of physical anthropology and molecular archaeology and a plenty of achievements have been gotten in this area.