Question by Tom: What were the oldest human remains found in the Americas?
And what is your source of information. What method was used to determine the age of the remains? What were the earliest discovered on the North American Continent?
Best answer:
Answer by Bigcee
Neg_oid skulls were found in the Brazil that date 12,000 years old predate the oldest Mongoloid
skull found dates 9,000 years this predates the Mongoloid by 3000 years
Luzia’s skull was discovered in the early 1970s by a French archeologist in a layer of sediment in Amazonas and was dismissed as insignificant. It was given
away to the National Museum in Rio de Janeiro, where it remained until a few years ago when Walter Neves, professor of biological anthropology at the
University of Sao Paolo, heard about it and realised that it might provide vital clues for solving the mystery of America’s anthropological heritage.
The procedure has revealed conclusive evidence of Luzia’s ancestry. Neves is still shocked by his findings. “When we started seeing the results, it was
amazing because we realised the statistics were not showing these people to be Mongoloid; they were showing that they were anything except Mongoloid,” he
said.
Luzia was reconstructed by Richard Neave, a forensic artist from the University of Manchester, for Ancient Voices, a BBC2 documentary to be shown next week.
Neave’s reconstruction backed up Neves’s calculations: “That to me is a negroid face. The proportions of the face do not say anything about it being
Techniques used were Carbon dating, digital face reconstruction, the scientific method of DOE
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