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[H. Mark Hubey]

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SCIENCE NEWS ONLINE
Week of April 7, 2001; Vol. 159, No. 14

Early Brazilians Unveil African Look
Bruce Bower

The stormy scientific debate over the origins of the first Americans has
taken
a surprising geographic turn. Human skulls unearthed in Brazil and
ranging in
age from about 8,000 to 11,000 years look more like modern Africans and
Australian aborigines than like modern Asians or Native Americans,
according to
a report presented in Kansas City at last week's annual meeting of the
American
Association of Physical Anthropologists.

This finding contradicts the influential theory that Asians were the
first to
cross the now submerged Bering land bridge to North America around
12,000 years
ago, says Walter A. Neves of the University of São Paulo. Instead,
African
migrants actually may have been the first to take this northern route
into the
Americas, theorizes Neves, who directed the Brazilian excavation and
fossil
analysis. At least 45,000 years ago, he adds, migrating Africans reached
Australia via a southern route.

The exact timing of population movements that brought Africans to what
is now
South America remains unknown, the Brazilian scientist says

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