W Neves
Biographic Data
| ID | 12776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | W Neves |
| GIVEN NAMES | W |
| FAMILY NAME | Neves |
| SIGNATURE | NEVES W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade de São Paulo |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9124-3937 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 74 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 544 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 74 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
The latest steps of human evolution: What the hard evidence has to say about it
The latest periods of human evolution are a heated topic of debate and have been at the center of paleoanthropological discussions since the beginning of the field. In the last twenty years, new excavations increased the geographic range of paleoanthropological data, new fossil hominins of the last third of the Pleistocene were found, and old key fossils were redated by modern and more accurate methods. The new picture emerging from this research…
The Oldowan of Zarqa Valley, Northern Jordan
Revisiting the cranial variability of the Dmanisi hominins
The Dmanisi specimens represent the most diverse contemporaneous hominin fossils found at one single site and are key in understanding the first out -of- Africa dispersal and the origins of Homo erectus. Due to these reasons, they have]e been the focus of many studies in paleoanthropology in the last 30 years. However, there has not been any consensus on how to classify these fossils, nor has it been clarified how many species were co-living at t…
Evolução hominínia: O Que Revela O Tamanho Dos Dentes Posteriores
A dentição tem grande importância para o estudo da evolução humana devido ao seu alto grau de preservação no registro fóssil e a sua capacidade de fornecer informações acerca dos indivíduos. Este trabalho busca identificar aspectos taxonômicos e relações evolutivas entre as espécies da linhagem humana a partir de uma análise fenética baseada em dados métricos da dentição posterior maxilar e mandibular, comparando-a com as ideias prevalecentes na …
O Pleistoceno Médio na evolução humana
O Pleistoceno Médio (780-130 mil anos) foi um período-chave na história evolutiva humana. O período abriga uma grande diversidade de espécies hominínias, inovações tecnológicas, além de ser, afinal, quando o Homo sapiens surgiu no planeta. Entretanto, as populações pleistocênicas, bem como as relações biológicas entre elas, permanecem precariamente compreendidas. Aqui, trazemos uma breve síntese da evolução humana com especial atenção às questões…
Evolução humana: O Que Há De Novo No Front
What kind of hominin first left Africa
Recent discoveries of stone tools from Jordan (2.5 Ma) and China (2.1 Ma) document hominin presence in Asia at the beginning of the Pleistocene, well before the conventional Dmanisi datum at 1.8 Ma. Although no fossil hominins documenting this earliest Out of Africa phase have been found, on chronological grounds a pre‐ Homo erectus hominin must be considered the most likely maker of those artifacts. If so, this sheds new light on at least two di…
Antropologia Biológica e Paleoantropologia: Exemplos Da Pesquisa Brasileira
A paleoantropologia é um campo que apresenta baixa difusão na ciência brasileira. Esse fato pode ser explicado devido à complexidade e competitividade da área, além da dificuldade de acesso, caso o pesquisador não pertença a um grande centro de pesquisa. Pensando nisso, apresentamos dois caminhos viáveis para aqueles pesquisadores que se interessem em estudar Evolução Humana, mantendo-se vinculados as instituições brasileiras. O primeiro caminho …
Human cranium of Candonga Cave site and its implications for the initial peopling of South America
was implemented in order to obtain relevant information about the South American people origins. Results of measurements provide new information to reinforce the hypothesis that Paleoamerican crania possess similar morphological traits to those of current Fueguian populations, as previous studies have claimed, and to suggest that the cranium of Candonga has strong morphological affinities with Early Holocene specimens from Lagoa Santa (Brazil) an…
Lagoa Santa's contribution to the origins and life of early Americans
The region of Lagoa Santa, Central‐Eastern Brazil, provides an exceptional archeological record about Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene occupation of the Americas. Since the first interventions made by the Danish naturalist Peter Lund in the 19th century, hundreds of human skeletons have been exhumed in the region. These skeletons are complemented by a rich botanic, faunal, technological, and geomorphological archeological record. We explore here t…
O Hobbit da Ilha de Flores: Implicações para a evolução humana
Brief communication: A re‐evaluation of the health index of southern Brazilian shellmound populations
OBJECTIVES: The southern Brazilian shellmounds provide archaeological evidence of prolonged human activity in the coast from approximately 6000 to 1000 BP. Shellmound building populations exploited the rich coastal estuarine zones, and the human remains recovered from them are important sources of information on health and overall lifestyle of these mid-Holocene groups. Therefore, they were included in the Western Hemisphere Global History of Hea…
Percepção do meio ambiente por parte da população atual de Lagoa Santa e suas implicações para a Arqueologia Regional
A subsistência dos primeiros habitantes de Lagoa Santa - MG e as variações ambientais durante o Holoceno na mesma região têm fomentado intensas discussões entre os pesquisadores brasileiros nas últimas décadas. Um questionário foi aplicado para obter informações dos moradores mais velhos sobre as condições ambientais, assim como as atividades de coleta, pesca e caça praticadas por eles durante a infância e a juventude vividas nos arredores da APA…
The Repercussions of the Human Skeletons from Lagoa Santa in the International Scenario
História das pesquisas bioarqueológicas em Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil
A região de Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, apresenta uma história de pesquisas que cruza as fronteiras disciplinares da antropologia, arqueologia e biologia. Neste artigo, traçamos um panorama dos debates que permeiam 180 anos de pesquisa na região. As primeiras intervenções na área foram realizadas pelo naturalista Peter Lund, no século XIX. Desde então, intervenções nacionais, como as do Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, e internacionais, como as d…
Ser ou não ser: Poderia um chimpanzé fazer a pergunta de Hamlet
Os estudos sobre comportamento de primatas não humanos, particularmente aqueles dedicados aos chimpanzés, realizados a partir da década de 1960, têm exposto um conjunto de conhecimentos sobre as capacidades cognitivas e a complexidade dos comportamentos individuais e coletivos desses animais que sugerem reflexões tanto sobre o lugar e o papel da vida social em seu desenvolvimento quanto sobre a extensão e a profundidade das características singul…
Lagoa Santa: Em busca dos primeiros americanos
Culturas de Chimpanzés: Uma Revisão Contemporânea Das Definições Em Uso
As 'culturas de chimpanzés' correspondem a uma ideia especialmente importante porque chimpanzés são os animais mais próximos aos humanos em termos genéticos e de complexidade de comportamento. Uma avaliação crítica desses fenômenos irá certamente redefinir as fronteiras entre humanos e não humanos. Além disso, criará novas formas de representação da humanidade e sua alteridade. Consequentemente, é também urgente discutir as definições de cultura …
Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: The archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)
Oral health in prehistoric San Pedro de Atacama oases, Northern Chile
Cranial Morphology of Early South Americans: Implications for Understanding Human Dispersion into the New World
The cranial morphology of the B otocudo I ndians, B razil
The Botocudo Indians were hunter‐gatherer groups that occupied the East‐Central regions of Brazil decimated during the colonial period in the country. During the 19th century, craniometric studies suggested that the Botocudo resembled more the Paleoamerican population of Lagoa Santa than typical Native Americans groups. These results suggest that the Botocudo Indians might represent a population that retained the biological characteristics of ear…
Osteofitosis Vertebral en Poblaciones Prehispánicas De San Pedro De Atacama, Norte De Chile
Se estudi la osteofitosis vertebral como indicador de estrs fsico en grupos humanos prehistricos de San Pedro de Atacama, durante los perodos Medio (400 DC -1000 DC) e Intermedio Tardo (1000 DC -1450 DC). Se registr el grado promedio de osteofitosis vertebral de cada segmento vertebral en 154 individuos adultos de cuatro sitios
Cranial morphological diversity of early, middle, and late H olocene B razilian groups: Implications for human dispersion in B razil
The history of human occupation in Brazil dates to at least 14 kyr BP, and the country has the largest record of early human remains from the continent. Despite the importance and richness of Brazilian human skeletal collections, the biological relationships between groups and their implications for knowledge about human dispersion in the country have not been properly explored. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the morphological aff…
Morfologia craniana dos remanescentes ósseos humanos da Lapa do Santo, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil: Implicações para o povoamento das Américas
A região cárstica de Lagoa Santa tem sido de suma importância para as discussões sobre o tempo e o modo da dispersão dos primeiros americanos. A Lapa do Santo, escavada na última década, originou uma das maiores coleções de esqueletos humanos desta região. Neste trabalho, investigamos as afinidades morfológicas dos esqueletos da Lapa do Santo com outras amostras esqueletais de Lagoa Santa e da Colômbia, contextualizando-as dentro da variação morf…
Morphological affinities of the first Americans: An exploratory analysis based on early South American human remains
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Santana do Riacho, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Lagoa Santa Revisited: An Overview of the Chronology, Subsistence, and Material Culture of Paleoindian Sites in Eastern Central Brazil
Lagoa Santa, a karstic area in eastern Central Brazil, has been subject to research on human paleontology and archaeology for 175 years. Almost 300 Paleoindian human skeletons have been found since Danish naturalist Peter Lund's pioneering work. Even so, some critical issues such as the role of rockshelters in settlement systems, and the possible paleoclimatic implications of the peopling of the region have yet to be addressed. We present some re…
Paleoamerican morphology in the context of European and East Asian late Pleistocene variation: Implications for human dispersion into the new world
Early American crania show a different morphological pattern from the one shared by late Native Americans. Although the origin of the diachronic morphological diversity seen on the continents is still debated, the distinct morphology of early Americans is well documented and widely dispersed. This morphology has been described extensively for South America, where larger samples are available. Here we test the hypotheses that the morphology of Ear…
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Sumidouro Cave, Lagoa Santa, Brazil: History of discoveries, geological and chronological context, and comparative cranial morphology
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans
We present the results of comparative multivariate morphological analyses based on nine skulls from Cerca Grande. The site is in the Lagoa Santa karst in Central Brazil, a key area for understanding the peopling of the Americas. The region has several archaeological sites with excellent preservation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene material culture and human skeletal remains. Stratigraphic association and direct dating of the Cerca Grande h…
Adult Stature and Standard of Living in the Prehistoric Atacama Desert
Postmarital Residence Practice in Southern Brazilian Coastal Groups: Continuity and Change
The coastal plains of the States of Paraná and Santa Catarina, in Southern Brazil, were first settled around 6000 B.P. by shellmound builders, a successful fisher-hunter-gatherer population that inhabited the coastal lowlands practically unchanged for almost five thousand years. Shellmounds were typically occupied as residential sites as well as cemeteries, andare usually associated with rich alimentary zones. Around 1200 B.P., the first evidence…
Late Pleistocene/Holocene craniofacial morphology in Mesoamerican Paleoindians: Implications for the peopling of the New World
Several studies on craniofacial morphology showed that most Paleoindians, who were the first settlers of the New World, clearly differ from modern Amerindians and East Asians, their supposed descendants and sister group, respectively. Here we present new evidence supporting this view from the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene horizon from Mexico, as well as from the most complete set of dated Paleoindian remains. We analyzed the phenotypic resembla…
Dental health in Northern Chile's Atacama oases: Evaluating the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000) impact on local diet
As one of the few areas apt for horticulture in Northern Chile's arid landscape, the prehistory of the Atacama oases is deeply enmeshed with that of the inter‐regional networks that promoted societal development in the south central Andes. During the Middle Horizon (AD 500–1000), local populations experienced a cultural apex associated with a substantial increase in inter‐regional interaction, population density, and quantity and quality of mortu…
A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Human skeletal remains from Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia: A case of Paleoamerican morphology late survival in South America
Human skeletal remains of the first Americans are scarce, especially in North America. In South America the situation is less dramatic. Two important archaeological regions have generated important collections that allow the analysis of the cranial morphological variation of the Early Americans: Lagoa Santa, Brazil, and Sabana de Bogotá, Colombia. Human crania from the former region have been studied by one of us (WAN) and collaborators, showing …
Early Holocene ritual complexity in South America: The archaeological record of Lapa do Santo (east-central Brazil)
The cranial morphology of the B otocudo I ndians, B razil
The Botocudo Indians were hunter‐gatherer groups that occupied the East‐Central regions of Brazil decimated during the colonial period in the country. During the 19th century, craniometric studies suggested that the Botocudo resembled more the Paleoamerican population of Lagoa Santa than typical Native Americans groups. These results suggest that the Botocudo Indians might represent a population that retained the biological characteristics of ear…
Human occupation and paleoenvironments in South America: "Expanding the notion of an "Archaic Gap
Uma revisão das informações arqueológicas produzidas no Brasil e países vizinhos durante as últimas décadas, aliada a uma análise de estudos paleoambientais recentes, sugerem que durante o Holoceno Médio amplas áreas da América do Sul deixaram de ser ocupadas por grupos humanos. Dados independentes, como datações de esqueletos humanos, estratigrafia de abrigos rochosos e cronologia de sítios arqueológicos a céu aberto convergem para a idéia de qu…
The Zhoukoudian Upper Cave skull 101 as seen from the Americas
A casa e a roça: Socioeconomia, demografia e agricultura em populações quilombolas do Vale do Ribeira, São Paulo, Brasil
Este estudo tem como objetivos caracterizar o perfil demográfico e socioeconômico de nove comunidades remanescentes de quilombos no vale do Ribeira, estado de São Paulo, e identificar os principais fatores responsáveis pelas mudanças recentes nos seus padrões de subsistência. Desde a formação das primeiras aglomerações de escravos libertos e foragidos no século XVIII, as relações estabelecidas entre estas populações com as cidades próximas e com …
Cranial morphological diversity of early, middle, and late H olocene B razilian groups: Implications for human dispersion in B razil
The history of human occupation in Brazil dates to at least 14 kyr BP, and the country has the largest record of early human remains from the continent. Despite the importance and richness of Brazilian human skeletal collections, the biological relationships between groups and their implications for knowledge about human dispersion in the country have not been properly explored. Here, we present a comprehensive assessment of the morphological aff…
Zuzu” strikes again—Morphological affinities of the early holocene human skeleton from Toca dos Coqueiros, Piaui, Brazil
The Serra da Capivara National Park in northeastern Brazil is one of the richest archaeological regions in South America. Nonetheless, so far only two paleoindian skeletons have been exhumed from the local rockshelters. The oldest one (9870 ± 50 BP; CAL 11060 ± 50), uncovered in Toca dos Coqueiros and known as “Zuzu,” represents a rare opportunity to explore the biological relationships of paleoindian groups living in northeastern Brazil. As prev…
Afinidades biológicas de grupos pré-históricos do vale do rio Ribeira de Iguape (SP): Uma Análise Preliminar
Although there is no doubt about human contacts between inland and coast in Southern Brazil during archaic times, these contacts remains unknown. Due to its geomorphologic idiosyncrasies, the Ribeira de Iguape valley, in the State of São Paulo, is one of few regions in Southeastern Brazil where this communication could be easily performed. Here we present results of a craniometric analysis using 12 human skeletons from riverine shellmounds from R…
Origem e dispersão dos Tupiguarani: O Que Diz a Morfologia Craniana
A origem e a dispersão dos povos Tupiguarani têm sido intensamente debatidas entre arqueólogos e linguistas nas últimas cinco décadas. Em resumo, pode-se dizer que a ideia de que esses povos, que ocuparam grande parte do território brasileiro e parte da Bolívia, do Paraguai, do Uruguai e da Argentina, tiveram sua etnogênese na Amazônia e dali partiram para o leste e para o sul, por volta de 2.500 anos antes do presente, é bastante aceita entre os…
Early skeletal remains and the peopling of the Americas
Nós investigamos as afinidades morfológicas das populações esqueletais mais antigas da Arnérica do Norte e do Sul, com base na variabilidade craniana mundial, através de uma Análise de Componentes Principais. Duas análises foram efetuadas, uma usando-se tamanho e forma e outra usando somente informação quanto a forma. Os resultados obtidos para as mulheres, em ambas as análises, não permitiram qualquer interpretação factível sobre as afinidades e…
The use of nonmetric variation in estimating human population admixture: A test case with Brazilian blacks, whites, and mulattos
Measurements in populations which serve as valid indicators of biological relationship should be proportional to genetic distance. In order to test the utility of discrete cranial traits for estimating genetic distances among populations, estimates of admixture are obtained for gene frequency data and nonmetric cranial data in São Paulo mulattos (M). The gene frequency data serve as a control that the three populations are related as stated: esti…
O mito da homogeneidade biológica na população paleoíndia de Lagoa Santa: Implicações Antropológicas
Since their first discovery in 1842-1843, by Peter Lund, the human skeletal remains from Lagoa Santa, Brazil, were destined to influence, substantially, the discussion about the settlement of the Americas, from a biological perspective. Until 1970 several authors have refered to these remains as a homogenous collection, implying that these individuals represented just one biological population or "race". Mello e Alvim (1977; see also Mello e Alvi…
Morfologia craniana dos remanescentes ósseos humanos da Lapa do Santo, Lagoa Santa, Minas Gerais, Brasil: Implicações para o povoamento das Américas
A região cárstica de Lagoa Santa tem sido de suma importância para as discussões sobre o tempo e o modo da dispersão dos primeiros americanos. A Lapa do Santo, escavada na última década, originou uma das maiores coleções de esqueletos humanos desta região. Neste trabalho, investigamos as afinidades morfológicas dos esqueletos da Lapa do Santo com outras amostras esqueletais de Lagoa Santa e da Colômbia, contextualizando-as dentro da variação morf…
Principal‐components analysis of Brazilian Indian anthropometric data
Analysis of nine characteristics on 1,205 males and 932 females from 12 tribes or groups of tribes indicated a poor relationship between morphology and language, as well as moderate agreement with the variability expected considering geography only. Two samples in the Xingu area studied during an interval of half a century (1897–1947) showed remarkable similarity. The conformity of the Caingang morphology with those of other tribes and the distin…
The use of nonmetric variation in estimating human population admixture: A test case with Brazilian blacks, whites, and mulattos
Measurements in populations which serve as valid indicators of biological relationship should be proportional to genetic distance. In order to test the utility of discrete cranial traits for estimating genetic distances among populations, estimates of admixture are obtained for gene frequency data and nonmetric cranial data in São Paulo mulattos (M). The gene frequency data serve as a control that the three populations are related as stated: esti…
Morphological affinities of the first Americans: An exploratory analysis based on early South American human remains
Subsistence patterns and blood pressure variation in two rural Caboclo communities of Marajó Island, Pará, Brazil
Blood pressure (BP) increases with age in westernized societies, is higher in men, and is correlated with the body mass index (BMI). Traditional societies present more variable patterns of BP. In 1991, BP and anthropometric data from two "Caboclo" (rural populations of mixed ancestry) groups from Marajó Island, Brazil, were collected: The Paricatuba group, (N = 20;12 women), with a subsistence base of fishing, collection of palm fruits, and tradi…
Early skeletal remains and the peopling of the Americas
Nós investigamos as afinidades morfológicas das populações esqueletais mais antigas da Arnérica do Norte e do Sul, com base na variabilidade craniana mundial, através de uma Análise de Componentes Principais. Duas análises foram efetuadas, uma usando-se tamanho e forma e outra usando somente informação quanto a forma. Os resultados obtidos para as mulheres, em ambas as análises, não permitiram qualquer interpretação factível sobre as afinidades e…
O Povoamento Da América a Luz Da Morfologia Craniana
The Zhoukoudian Upper Cave skull 101 as seen from the Americas
Trauma Y Estrés en Poblaciones Prehistóricas De San Pedro De Atacama, Norte De Chile
En este trabajo se utilizo el esqueleto humano bajo un acercamiento cuantitativo, para investigar el rigor de la vida cotidiana al que la poblacion pre-historica de San Pedro de Atacama estaba expuesta durante cuatro fases distintas: Pre-Tiwanaku, Tiwanaku, Post-Tiwanaku 1 y Post-Tiwanaku II. Para ello, fueron analizados i61 individuos adultos para detectar traumas craneanos y postcraneanos, sin encontrarse diferencias significativas entre fases …
Adult Stature and Standard of Living in the Prehistoric Atacama Desert
Craniofacial morphology of the first Americans: Pattern and process in the peopling of the New World
The peopling of the New World has been the focus of anthropological attention since the last century. Proponents of multiple migration models have claimed that patterns of variation among extant New World populations reflect ancient, discrete migrations to the Americas during the terminal Pleistocene. Although multiple migration models appear to explain patterns of both past and present craniometric variation, this interpretation rests on a numbe…
Incidence and distribution of postcranial fractures in the prehistoric population of San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile
Trauma incidence analysis in skeletal populations has been very popular among skeletal biologists during the last two decades. In this context, the work of Lovejoy and Heiple ([1981] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 55:529-541) has been quoted as a landmark because their analysis rested on a populational approach, avoiding simple assumptions about cause and etiology. In this study, we apply to the prehistoric population of San Pedro de Atacama, northern C…
Incidence and distribution of postcranial fractures in the prehistoric population of San Pedro de Atacama, northern Chile
Trauma incidence analysis in skeletal populations has been very popular among skeletal biologists during the last two decades. In this context, the work of Lovejoy and Heiple ([1981] Am. J. Phys. Anthropol. 55:529–541) has been quoted as a landmark because their analysis rested on a populational approach, avoiding simple assumptions about cause and etiology. In this study, we apply to the prehistoric population of San Pedro de Atacama, northern C…
Craniofacial morphology of the first Americans: Pattern and process in the peopling of the New World
The peopling of the New World has been the focus of anthropological attention since the last century. Proponents of multiple migration models have claimed that patterns of variation among extant New World populations reflect ancient, discrete migrations to the Americas during the terminal Pleistocene. Although multiple migration models appear to explain patterns of both past and present craniometric variation, this interpretation rests on a numbe…
Modern human origins as seen from the peripheries
Antes De Cabral: A Arqueologia E a Sociodiversidade No Passado
The Buhl Burial: A Comment on Green et al
Green et al.'s (1998) recent contention that the Buhl Paleoindian craniofacial attributes are similar to other North American Indians and East Asian populations is tested here through a principal components analysis based on 16 cranial measurements. The analysis involved the comparison of the cranial morphology of the Buhl specimen with 26 Howells' modern populations. We also added to the analysis the craniometric data regarding a firmly establis…
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Santana do Riacho, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Early Holocene human skeletal remains from Cerca Grande, Lagoa Santa, Central Brazil, and the origins of the first Americans
We present the results of comparative multivariate morphological analyses based on nine skulls from Cerca Grande. The site is in the Lagoa Santa karst in Central Brazil, a key area for understanding the peopling of the Americas. The region has several archaeological sites with excellent preservation of late Pleistocene and early Holocene material culture and human skeletal remains. Stratigraphic association and direct dating of the Cerca Grande h…
O mito da homogeneidade biológica na população paleoíndia de Lagoa Santa: Implicações Antropológicas
Since their first discovery in 1842-1843, by Peter Lund, the human skeletal remains from Lagoa Santa, Brazil, were destined to influence, substantially, the discussion about the settlement of the Americas, from a biological perspective. Until 1970 several authors have refered to these remains as a homogenous collection, implying that these individuals represented just one biological population or "race". Mello e Alvim (1977; see also Mello e Alvi…
Influencia de Tiwanaku en la calidad de vida biológica de la población prehistórica de San Pedro de Atacama
Se examinan cuatro momentos de la prehistoria de San Pedro de Atacama, con el objeto de calificar el impacto de la influencia Tiwanaku en una población local. Fueron realizados estudios osteobiográficos en 161 individuos de los cementerios Solcor-3, Coyo-3 y Quitor-6, representativos de los períodos pre-Tiwanaku (Fases Sequitor, Quitor), Tiwanaku (Fase Coyo; auge de influencia altiplánica), Tiwanaku Final (final Fase Coyo) y post-Tiwanaku (Fase Y…
Holocene Dryness and Human Occupation in Brazil During the “Archaic Gap”
An overview of the archaeological data produced over the last decades for Brazil, coupled with a background of recent paleoenvironmental studies, suggests that during the mid-Holocene vast areas of Central Brazil ceased to be occupied by human groups. Independent data from dated human skeletons, rock-shelter stratigraphy, and chronology of open-air sites converge to support the inference that these areas were depopulated or altogether abandoned. …
Cranial morphology of early Americans from Lagoa Santa, Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
Comparative morphological studies of the earliest human skeletons of the New World have shown that, whereas late prehistoric, recent, and present Native Americans tend to exhibit a cranial morphology similar to late and modern Northern Asians (short and wide neurocrania; high, orthognatic and broad faces; and relatively high and narrow orbits and noses), the earliest South Americans tend to be more similar to present Australians, Melanesians, and…
Geochronology, sediment provenance, and fossil emplacement at Sumidouro Cave, a classic late Pleistocene/early Holocene Paleoanthropological site in eastern Brazil
Peter Wilhelm Lund's (1845a) heavily debated suggestion of a contemporaneity between Paleo‐Indians and extinct Pleistocene fauna at Sumidouro Cave was re‐examined through detailed sedimentological and geochronological analyses of sediment and both human and faunal remains. Sources of the cave's sediment include both entrances as well as ceiling fissures. Non‐human fossils, on the other hand, were probably carried by floodwater through the once mo…
Late Pleistocene/Holocene craniofacial morphology in Mesoamerican Paleoindians: Implications for the peopling of the New World
Several studies on craniofacial morphology showed that most Paleoindians, who were the first settlers of the New World, clearly differ from modern Amerindians and East Asians, their supposed descendants and sister group, respectively. Here we present new evidence supporting this view from the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene horizon from Mexico, as well as from the most complete set of dated Paleoindian remains. We analyzed the phenotypic resembla…
A new early Holocene human skeleton from Brazil: Implications for the settlement of the New World
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