Palaeoamerican
The Paleoindian or Palaeoamerican Terminology The term comes from the Palaeoamerican French translation of the Anglo-American terminology Paleoamerican. The Palaeoamerican lived in America at the end of the period of the Pleistocene , during the last period of the prehistoric Middle Paleolithic and during the Upper Paleolithic. Recent discoveries can say they knew also the last glaciation and the beginning of the prehistoric Neolithic period to the Holocene. They were primarily hunter-gatherers. Wildlife was formed by a prehistoric megafauna now largely disappeared. Among these animals lived herbivores such as horses (Equus caballus), and camelids (paleo-llama and guanaco), the behemoths such as mammoths , giant sloths like megatherium and Mylodon , giant armadillos, such as glyptodon and terrible carnivores such as Smilodon or saber-toothed tiger, and finally near the coastal shores, they ate shellfish. The flora also composed their diet: berries , tubers and planting materials of teosinte and maize. The morphological model is similar to the type Palaeoamerican Australoid or African, or the kind Caucasian or Caucasian. Professor Javier Romero, del Instituto Nacional de Antropologa e Historia de Mexico, determined that the skeletons found Palaeoamerican in the State of Mexico , like Tepexpan were of Homo sapiens Aboriginal origins. For the specialist, the bones appear to belong to any foreign ancient. These characteristics reveal a protruding chin, the brow slightly pronounced, a skull equal to that of homo sapiens, but with slightly sloping forehead and low. The scientific results of the last twenty years, revolutionizing the idea generally acquired the peopling of America and give further guidance on the various waves stand pre-Clovis in the Americas. A complete skeleton type Caucasian , the Kennewick Man , dating back over 9000 years was discovered in the State of Washington in July 1996 on the banks of the Columbia. The remains of a man of Caucasian type was found on the website of the Grotto of the mind , in Nevada and has been dated between 11 000 and -8000. Mummies were exhumed under several meters of deposits of guano in the cave in Lovelock in 1911 by farmer-gatherers. They all had a large (over two meters tall) and a Caucasian-like appearance with long hair red or redhead. They were dated about 5000 years by analyzing the carbon-14. Others were discovered in 1931 near the same type of Lovelock Cave. 75 skulls, including the skull of Luzia , were uncovered in Brazil dating from 35,000 years or as old or more than the Clovis site , in New Mexico , hitherto regarded as the oldest of the continent, they are of African or part Australoid. The 250 skulls and skeletons of large Cerca in Brazil , studied by scientists Walter Neves and Mark Hubbe of the Laboratory of Human Evolution Studies, Department of Genetics and Evolutionary Biology, Institute of Science, University of Sao Paulo. They are dated in the range of 8000 years to 12000 years. They have the same morphology Australoid or African that Luzia. The bones of the Penon Woman (about 13 000 years), found near Mexico have characteristics dolichocephalic skulls resemble those of Baja California. Some experts claim this skull is closer to those of large Cerca or Luzia , or that of the Kennewick Man. Human presence in the peninsula of Baja California in Baja California, Mexico, was a few tens of thousands of years. Human occupation was analyzed by the update, the site of the cave Babisuri in Baja California , many tools (artifacts, burnt wood, shells worked) which allows to date of at least 40,000 years the presence human. Dozens of skeletons dating from 13,000 years to 15,000 years will be discovered by several teams of archaeologists Mexican, American, British and Japanese in the same region of Mexico Baja California. The prehistoric sites of Baja California , rich in many cave paintings, engaged human bones Palaeoamerican, whose skulls suggest an affinity with that of Penon Woman , and other human remains discovered in the same region of central Mexico , such as the Man of Metro Balderas (11000 years). The Man Tlapacoya (District of Mexico) dated 11,000 years has a dolichocephalic skull and resembles its neighbor, the Penon Woman. The woman Tepexpan dated (11000 years) and Human Chimalhuacan (11000 years) both found in the State of Mexico. The assumption of a Homo sapiens- local is recent. These two skeletons were not before and even some specialists attached to those of the woman Peon and Baja California. 
Analysis craniological
dolichocephalic skulls: standard assumption Caucasian
dolichocephalic skulls: standard assumption Australoid or African
dolichocephalic skulls and mesocephalic: Joint hypothesis, type Caucasian or Ainu or Australoid
Skulls mesocephalic (with protruding chin, forehead down): Homo sapiens standard assumption Aboriginal
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