Reconstruction of Peñón Woman, the first American.

[Kukul-Kan]

The oldest human skull found in the Americas. I remember that like a year ago, when the skull was exactly dated(it was found in 1959 in central Mexico though) many articles dealt with her racial origin. Some mentioned she was related to Caucasoids and even some Negroid like populations, even though the Mexican and British scientists, who had dated the skull, always said she was related to the Ainu and some Pacific Islanders by studding the skull. Finally we get the reconstruction.

[AWAR]

Ever since I read the news that pre-Amerindian skeletons have been found in central America, I always imagined them to be of the Ainu sort.

Maybe this is a sort of reduced Neanderthaloid?

[caucasoid]

AWAR said:

Ever since I read the news that pre-Amerindian skeletons have been found in central America, I always imagined them to be of the Ainu sort.

Maybe this is a sort of reduced Neanderthaloid?

I would imagine that they are Magdalenians, but C. Loring Brace believes that Ainuids are a reduced Neanterthal type. The Magdalenians possibly show a reemergence of Neanderthal features.

Ainu are in some ways craniometrically close to South Seas islanders, and differ from the Magdalenian type. I would say this is because of contact with Australoids moving along the coast of East Asia.

C. Loring Brace believes that Ainuids miigrated south and contributed to the Polynesians, but others find it unlikely.

[Agrippa]

There are no Neandetaloid genes in the human species.

They Ainuid people like that of America are just a more robust early sapiens variant which is showing Protomongolid and Protoeuropid features also.