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What was Aboriginal 'lookalike' doing in Brazil 11,000 years ago?
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[link to www.theage.com.au]
HOW did a skull with the features of an Aboriginal Australian wind up at the bottom of a limestone cave in Brazil, covered with 11,000 years' worth of mud, rocks and gravel?
The solution may rewrite early human history.
The owner of the skull, a female whom Professor Walter Neves, an anthropologist, named Luzia, had eyes and a nose that sat low in the skull.
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Her brain case was long and narrow, and a facial reconstruction reveals a projected profile, with the chin sitting out further than the forehead.
These are not the features of a South American. Rather, they are consistent with the anatomy of sub-Saharan Africans, Aboriginal Australians and some early Pacific Islanders.
For years many scientists have accepted the theory that North America was colonised by a single wave of early humans who travelled from north-east Asia about 11,000 years ago and resembled Native Americans. They were called the Clovis people after a town in Mexico where many of their hunting tools were found.
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