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Why did the ancient terracotta warriors and horses and many figures and sculptures have the skeleton structure of Africans?
Skull in archaeological materials is the main basis for ethnologists to determine the attribution of ancient residents and material culture. The establishment of many measurement standards between human skulls will inevitably make them different in classification. Institutional anthropologists in China have questioned the "scientificity" of ethnology, and ethnologists are full of vagueness and ambiguity in specific descriptive terms. The same skull, with the change of measurement standards, will show different national characteristics. For example, the nose height of the skull is close to the Europa race, and the head shape is close to the Mongolian race. If one index belongs to Mongolian race, the other index is close to black race. Judging from the skull of Yin Ruins in Anyang, some scholars think it has the characteristics of "Obaro race", some people think it belongs to Mongolian race, and some people think it has the characteristics of black race. According to the skull measurement data of Luopushanpu people in Xinjiang, some people belong to Mongolian race and some people belong to Europa race. Although Genghis Khan's sons are all red-haired and blue-eyed, no one will discuss whether Mongolians are "Europa". In view of this, the new concepts of modern anthropologists, biologists and geneticists have completely surpassed the concept of race in 19-20 century.

The concept of race has lost its academic value in Europe and America 30 years ago. China scholars should also give up the undesirable method of "race" and stop using the concept of race to study human bone materials in archaeology, and replace it with modern western anthropology-sociology theory, thus changing the situation that China archaeologists use outdated theories to explain archaeological materials.