Analysis of the bone lineage of the Yin Ruins Sacrifice Pit.
(According to the paper: Multivariate Analysis of Bone Germline of Yin Ruins Sacrifice Pit)
Yang Ximu once measured nearly 400 sacrificial pit skulls from the perspective of physical anthropology and divided them into five forms
Mongol ethnic type, similar to modern Buryatia and Chukchi, 80, 35.6 per cent
Ii. Pacific Negro race type, similar to modern Papua and Melanesian skulls, 38, 16.9%
European ethnic type, similar to the skull of modern British, with only two bodies, accounting for 0.9%
IV. Eskimo type, 55 bodies, 24.4%
V. Small skulls, female bones of suspected anterior type, 50, 22.2%
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According to Tang Jigen, the Yin Ruins sacrifice pit was mostly captured prisoners, especially the Qiang people took the most prisoners.
