Abstract
In order to examine the characteristics and the evolutionary stage of innominates from Pleistocene in Japan, the nonmetrical characters of Japanese Pleistocene innominates and of various other innominates ranging from the Australopithecus to the Recent Sapiens stage were observed and classified into successive categories for each item in Part I. The characteristics of Japanese Pleistocene innominates were already clarified in Part I. In this part, the successive categories are used for nonparametric statistical analyses for the purpose of detecting their evolutionary stages. The methods are the KRUSKAL multidimensional scaling for clarifying the positional relationship among specimens in various stages, the KENDALL coefficient of concordance for detecting the one-directional evolutionary trend, and the LIKERT method for defining their stages in the evolutionary trend. The result is that all the Japanese innominates from Pleistocene are concluded to be in the Pleistocene Sapiens stage except for the Akashi innominate, which is very modern, belonging to the Holocene Sapiens stage.
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