Re: A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil

a.manansala_at_attbi.com
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: 23 Mar 2005 08:56:09 -0800

Philip Deitiker wrote:
> Journal of Human Evolution
> Volume 48, Issue 4 , April 2005, Pages 403-414
>
> A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: implications
> for the settlement of the New World
>
> Walter A. Nevesa, , , Mark Hubbea, Maria Mercedes M. Okumuraa,
> Rolando González-Joséb, Levy Figutic, Sabine Eggersd and Paulo
> Antonio Dantas De Blasisc
>
>
> Abstract
> Increasing skeletal evidence from the U.S.A., Mexico,
> Colombia, and Brazil strongly suggests that the first settlers
> in the Americas had a cranial morphology distinct from that
> displayed by most late and modern Native Americans. The
> Paleoamerican morphological pattern is more generalized and
> can be seen today among Africans, Australians, and
> Melanesians. Here, we present the results of a comparative
> morphological assessment of a late Paleoindian/early archaic
> specimen from Capelinha Burial II, southern Brazil. The
> Capelinha skull was compared with samples of four Paleoindian
> groups from South and Central America and worldwide modern
> groups from W.W. Howells' studies. In both analyses performed
> (classical morphometrics and geometric morphometrics), the
> results show a clear association between Capelinha Burial II
> and the Paleoindians, as well as Australians, Melanesians, and
> Africans, confirming its Paleoamerican status.
>
> --

The same "generalized" cranial morphology was found widely in Europe
from about the same period through the Neolithic and even well into the
Bronze Age in some areas.

Regards,
Paul Kekai Manansala
http://sambali.blogspot.com/