新疆地区是东西方文化和人种的典型“接触”地带。在这里,欧洲人种和蒙古人种,短颅型和长颅型,宽面和狭面等不同体质类型的人种彼此接触、相互影响。因此,从某种意义上说,新疆可称为一个人类学的博物馆,对新疆人类学材料的研究也显得尤为重要。新疆的种族人类学研究工作1949年以前,主要是由少数外国学者完成的。这其中 Xinjiang is a typical “place of contact” for Eastern and Western cultures and ethnic groups. Here, people of European and Mongolian ethnicity, short-craniofacial and long-craniocervical, wide-brimmed and narrow-faced people of different physique types touch each other and influence each other. Therefore, in a sense, Xinjiang can be called an anthropological museum and the study of anthropological materials in Xinjiang is also very important. Before 1949, ethnic anthropological research in Xinjiang was done mainly by a few foreign scholars. some of