Mexico: Ancient woman suggests diverse migration

Associated Press ^ | 1 hr 57 mins ago | MARK STEVENSON,

[BenLurkin]

A scientific reconstruction of one of the oldest sets of human remains found in the Americas appears to support theories that the first people who came to the hemisphere migrated from a broader area than once thought, researchers say.

Anthropologists had long believed humans migrated to the Americas in a relatively short period from a limited area in northeast Asia across a temporary land corridor that opened across the Bering Strait during an ice age.

But government archaeologist Alejandro Terrazas says the picture has now become more complicated, because the reconstruction more resembles people from southeastern Asian areas like Indonesia.

"History isn't that simple," Terrazas said. "This indicates that the Americas were populated by several migratory movements, not just one or two waves from northern Asia across the Bering Strait."

Because rising water levels flooded the cave where she died or was laid to rest, her skeleton was about 90 percent intact. Archaeologists and physical anthropologists calculated she was between 44 and 50 years old when she died, was about 5 feet (1.52 meters) tall and weighed about 128 pounds (58 kilograms).

Experts also measured skull features and calculated the muscle and other tissue layers that once covered her face, which served as a guide for experts in paleo-anthropological modeling at the Atelier Daynes in France to complete a model of the woman.

The model shows a stocky woman and clad in a simple knee-length woven tunic. She had a broad face, prominent cheeks, thin lips, and little trace of the epicanthic eye-folds that characterize many modern Asian populations.

"Her body structure, skin and eyes are similar to the population of Southeast Asia," the institute said in a statement.

[afraidfortherepublic]

How do they know what she weighed if all the flesh was gone? Do you mean that the “I am big boned” excuse is really true?

[blam]

Vintage Skulls

"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas.

"Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."

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[afraidfortherepublic]

Woman of the Palms

[afraidfortherepublic]

Will that counter claims of modern Mexicans who want to shove us all off of this continent? Perhaps they’ll have to leave too, in favor of another population.

[blam]

Luzia (Brazil, 11,500 Years Old)

[afraidfortherepublic]

Ping

[UCANSEE2]

One day they will ‘find’ that human beings have crossed the Earth at will, and for various reasons, for a long, long, long, time.

Humans have lived in places that we cannot/have not explored because they are under the seafloor.

All theories on cultural migration are just theories, and when new info is found that alters those theories, it isn’t really surprising.

[Palter]

I'd like them to at least compare the results to the Arlington Springs woman.

Tribe challenges American origins (South Pacific Rim peoples were 1st Americans[FR]

[moonhawk]

Waiting for picture of Helen Thomas....

[workerbee]

I concur — humans throughout history have always been more intelligent than we “moderns” give them credit for.

Until November 2008, that is.

[dljordan]

“One day they will ‘find’ that human beings have crossed the Earth at will, and for various reasons, for a long, long, long, time.”

Civilizations long turned to dust. I think a lot of people just don’t want to admit they don’t know everything.

[normy]

Within only 500 years Africans and Europeans mixed in the Americas with the natives to form most of the population of S. America and Central America. What will they look like in 500 more years?

We cant even figure out how to build the pyramids or raise an obelisk with Egyptian technology. Which is no big deal except people today act like they have it all figured out. I would say we are dumber with less ability to survive than ever before. Without modern conveniences most Americans are screwed.

[SunkenCiv]

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[dljordan]

“We cant even figure out how to build the pyramids or raise an obelisk with Egyptian technology.”

I don’t think they did it with rollers and ropes.

[Ptarmigan]

Makes perfect sense to me.

[ApplegateRanch]

Hmmm; I could have sworn I've seen that face somewhere before...and it didn't originate in Eastern, nor Southeastern, Asia

[colorado tanker]

IIRC, other evidence has emerged of pre-Columbian contacts in the form of exchange of domesticated animals and plants. It's no longer safe to assume every non-native species in South America came over with the Spanish.

[Little Bill]

You have that right, we have been talking about this for the last eight or so years on the GGG threads. If I were a betting man I would take short odds on some major revisions in the near future,

[colorado tanker]

All the comings and goings to the Americas from Europe and Polynesia reminds me of a line from The Philadelphia Story:

-Was he here too?
-Sure.
Good golly. Why didn't you sell tickets?