Early Holocene Human Remains from the Argentinean Pampas: Cranial Variation in South America and the American Peopling
- Menendez, Lumila Paula
- Perez, Sergio Ivan
- Pucciarelli, Hector Mario
- Bonomo, Mariano
- Messineo, Pablo Geronimo
- Gonzalez, Mariela Edith
- Politis, Gustavo Gabriel
DOIAbstract
Morphological comparisons between the earliest and latest human skeletons of America have suggested the existence of a complex scenario underlying the biological diversification of American populations. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Florentino Ameghino initiated the debate on the antiquity of humans in the Argentinean Pampas, which has been reviewed recently due to new radiocarbon dates obtained. Morphometric analyses from these Argentinean Pampas samples are presented together with early samples from Chile, Brazil, and Colombia. Results show that while there is no clear separation between early and late samples from Chile, samples from Brazil, Colombia, and Argentina show more pronounced differences, the latter prese...
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