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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| author | Neves Walter A. Powell Joseph F. Prous Andre Ozolins Erik G. Blum Max |
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| description | 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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| spelling | doaj.art-0af636d475eb49c8995f23b6d8668c2e2022-12-22T02:53:36ZengSociedade Brasileira de GenéticaGenetics and Molecular Biology1415-47571678-46851999-01-01224461469Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known AmericanNeves Walter A.Powell Joseph F.Prous AndreOzolins Erik G.Blum MaxSeveral 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.http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1415-47571999000400001 |
| spellingShingle | 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 Genetics and Molecular Biology |
| title | Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
| title_full | Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
| title_fullStr | Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
| title_full_unstemmed | Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
| title_short | Lapa vermelha IV Hominid 1: morphological affinities of the earliest known American |
| title_sort | lapa vermelha iv hominid 1 morphological affinities of the earliest known american |
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