Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American
Several studies concerning the extra-continental morphological affinities of Paleo-Indian skeletons, carried out independently in South and North America, have indicated that the Americas were first occupied by non-Mongoloids that made their way to the New World through the Bering Strait in ancient...
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ftjscielo:oai:scielo:S1415-47571999000400001 2023-05-15T15:44:16+02:00 Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American Neves,Walter A. Powell,Joseph F. Prous,Andre Ozolins,Erik G. Blum,Max 1999-12-01 text/html http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000400001 en eng Sociedade Brasileira de Genética Genetics and Molecular Biology v.22 n.4 1999 journal article 1999 ftjscielo 2015-10-26T23:04:56Z Several studies concerning the extra-continental morphological affinities of Paleo-Indian skeletons, carried out independently in South and North America, have indicated that the Americas were first occupied by non-Mongoloids that made their way to the New World through the Bering Strait in ancient times. The first South Americans show a clear resemblance to modern South Pacific and African populations, while the first North Americans seem to be at an unresolved morphological position between modern South Pacific and Europeans. In none of these analyses the first Americans show any resemblance to either northeast Asians or modern native Americans. So far, these studies have included affirmed and putative early skeletons thought to date between 8,000 and 10,000 years B.P. In this work the extra-continental morphological affinities of a Paleo-Indian skeleton well dated between 11,000 and 11,500 years B.P. (Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1, or "Luzia") is investigated, using as comparative samples Howells' (1989) world-wide modern series and Habgood's (1985) Old World Late Pleistocene fossil hominids. The comparison between Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1 and Howells' series was based on canonical variate analysis, including 45 size-corrected craniometric variables, while the comparison with fossil hominids was based on principal component analysis, including 16 size-corrected variables. In the first case, Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1 exhibited an undisputed morphological affinity firstly with Africans and secondly with South Pacific populations. In the second comparison, the earliest known American skeleton had its closest similarities with early Australians, Zhoukoudian Upper Cave 103, and Taforalt 18. The results obtained clearly confirm the idea that the Americas were first colonized by a generalized Homo sapiens population which inhabited East Asia in the Late Pleistocene, before the definition of the classic Mongoloid morphology. Article in Journal/Newspaper Bering Strait SciELO Brazil (Scientific Electronic Library Online) Bering Strait Indian Pacific |
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Several studies concerning the extra-continental morphological affinities of Paleo-Indian skeletons, carried out independently in South and North America, have indicated that the Americas were first occupied by non-Mongoloids that made their way to the New World through the Bering Strait in ancient times. The first South Americans show a clear resemblance to modern South Pacific and African populations, while the first North Americans seem to be at an unresolved morphological position between modern South Pacific and Europeans. In none of these analyses the first Americans show any resemblance to either northeast Asians or modern native Americans. So far, these studies have included affirmed and putative early skeletons thought to date between 8,000 and 10,000 years B.P. In this work the extra-continental morphological affinities of a Paleo-Indian skeleton well dated between 11,000 and 11,500 years B.P. (Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1, or "Luzia") is investigated, using as comparative samples Howells' (1989) world-wide modern series and Habgood's (1985) Old World Late Pleistocene fossil hominids. The comparison between Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1 and Howells' series was based on canonical variate analysis, including 45 size-corrected craniometric variables, while the comparison with fossil hominids was based on principal component analysis, including 16 size-corrected variables. In the first case, Lapa Vermelha IV Hominid 1 exhibited an undisputed morphological affinity firstly with Africans and secondly with South Pacific populations. In the second comparison, the earliest known American skeleton had its closest similarities with early Australians, Zhoukoudian Upper Cave 103, and Taforalt 18. The results obtained clearly confirm the idea that the Americas were first colonized by a generalized Homo sapiens population which inhabited East Asia in the Late Pleistocene, before the definition of the classic Mongoloid morphology. |
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Neves,Walter A. Powell,Joseph F. Prous,Andre Ozolins,Erik G. Blum,Max Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
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lapa vermelha iv hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known american |
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1999 |
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