Luzia
Luzia: Paleo-Indian (South America)
This BBC documentary showed how archeologists and people found strange paintings and unusual human remains in rock shelters. According to Annette Laming-Emperairee in the video, she says that the remains didn’t belong with the current fossils they’ve had and the ones they’ve found are as old as the ice age. If this is true, it shows that Indians and Mongolians weren’t the first thought people to enter the world. It also shows that certain theories about the first kinds of people may probably be disproved. When this discovery occurred the archeologists began to dig farther into to the earth to see if they can find anything else. As they dug they found more paintings, stone-like tools, and found human occupation in animal bones and charcoal. After digging into about 40,000-50,000 years old of layer they found what is to believe the oldest skulls in the Americas. The skulls are believed to be about 9,000-10,000 years old, which in theory archaeologists believe the early world was discovered tens of thousands years earlier than believed. Out of the many skulls Annette Laming-Emperaire discovered in Lapa Vermelha, Brazil, there was one particular skull that was found to be the oldest. The scientists and archaeologists nick named her, “Luzia” and began to do testing to see what she was and where she came from. The skull was measured and the statistics were put into a special computer. Surprisingly, Luzia was everything except Mongoloid. When this came into place, they took the skull and got a 3D cat scan to build a replica to make a face. A forensic artist recreated the features and scientists couldn’t believe it. The face did not look Mongolian, according to the scientist it resembled a “Negritoid”. As they did more tests they found out that Luzia was African and Australian. Since scientists were shocked they examined all the other skulls found with Luzia and once the same results were repetitive they began to
This BBC documentary showed how archeologists and people found strange paintings and unusual human remains in rock shelters. According to Annette Laming-Emperairee in the video, she says that the remains didn’t belong with the current fossils they’ve had and the ones they’ve found are as old as the ice age. If this is true, it shows that Indians and Mongolians weren’t the first thought people to enter the world. It also shows that certain theories about the first kinds of people may probably be disproved. When this discovery occurred the archeologists began to dig farther into to the earth to see if they can find anything else. As they dug they found more paintings, stone-like tools, and found human occupation in animal bones and charcoal. After digging into about 40,000-50,000 years old of layer they found what is to believe the oldest skulls in the Americas. The skulls are believed to be about 9,000-10,000 years old, which in theory archaeologists believe the early world was discovered tens of thousands years earlier than believed. Out of the many skulls Annette Laming-Emperaire discovered in Lapa Vermelha, Brazil, there was one particular skull that was found to be the oldest. The scientists and archaeologists nick named her, “Luzia” and began to do testing to see what she was and where she came from. The skull was measured and the statistics were put into a special computer. Surprisingly, Luzia was everything except Mongoloid. When this came into place, they took the skull and got a 3D cat scan to build a replica to make a face. A forensic artist recreated the features and scientists couldn’t believe it. The face did not look Mongolian, according to the scientist it resembled a “Negritoid”. As they did more tests they found out that Luzia was African and Australian. Since scientists were shocked they examined all the other skulls found with Luzia and once the same results were repetitive they began to