In Brazil, one of the most important items of archeology that helped to compose American prehistory was found. This fact happened in the beginning of the 70's, more precisely, in 1974, in an archaeological site called Lapa Vermelha, located in the city of Pedro Leopoldo, in Minas Gerais. Responsible for the excavation and research was the team of archaeologist Annete Laming-Emperaire. In the excavations, a human skull was found, and it was soon proven that it was a female person, called by Luzia's team. After analysis of the skull, it was found that she would have died approximately 11,000 years ago.
The most intriguing thing was not the age of the skull but its origin, Dr Richard Neave of the English University of Manchester, developed a work to reconstruct Luzia's skull and found an enormous similarity to the lines Negroids.
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This finding led us to verify that the American continent was occupied by four migratory flows, thus, the three the latter were composed of populations of Mongolian origin with genetic characteristics common to the indigenous tribes of the present.
In short, this discovery uncovered evidence that prior to the occurrence of Mongolian flows there was migration. of non-Mongols, that is, men with aspects extremely similar to the Africans and the aborigines of the Australia.
Eduardo de Freitas
Graduated in Geography
Brazil School Team
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