INVESTIGADORES
GONZALEZ-JOSE Rolando
artículos
Título:
A new Early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World.
Autor/es:
WALTER NEVES,; MARK HUBBE,; MERCEDES OKUMURA,; GONZÁLEZ-JOSÉ, ROLANDO; FIGUTI L,; SABINE EGGERS,; DE BLASIS PA, DANTAS
Revista:
JOURNAL OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
Referencias:
Año: 2005 vol. 48 p. 403 - 414
ISSN:
0047-2484
Resumen:
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.