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 …

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 …

The cranial morphology of early South American human remains are compared with Late
Pleistocene and Early Holocene worldwide human morphological variation by means of a …

The nearly-complete, well-preserved skeleton of a Paleoamerican male was found by
chance near Kennewick, Washington, in 1996. Although analysis was quickly suspended by …

In this study we compare the cranial morphology of several late Paleoindian skeletons
uncovered at Santana do Riacho, Central Brazil, with worldwide human cranial variation …

CG Turner II made dental morphological observations on thousands of Eskimo-Aleuts and
American Indians and concluded they were derived from ancestral populations in northeast …

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 …

In this work, we present new evidence supporting the idea that the first Americans were very
distinct from late and recent Native Americans and Asians in terms of cranial morphology …

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 …

Currently, one of the major debates about the American peopling focuses on the number of
populations that originated the biological diversity found in the continent during the …