What race did the skull of luzia the oldest skull found in the Americas belong to?

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Ancient Hippy Profile
Ancient Hippy answered

From Wikipedia:  Anthropologists have variously described Luzia's features as resembling those of Negroids, Indigenous Australians, Melanesians and the Negritos of Southeast Asia. Walter Neves,
an anthropologist at the University of São Paulo, suggests that Luzia's
features most strongly resemble those of Australian Aboriginal peoples.

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Corley Walsh
Corley Walsh commented
Meant they couldn't figure out and still some can't
Walt O'Reagun
Walt O'Reagun commented
Actually ... the reasons your tribe didn't share their ancestry is pretty simple: 1 Nobody asked, and 2 They didn't know.

Btw - The Amerinds had slaves as much as the Europeans did.

Btw 2 - There were also white slaves, in addition to black and AmerInd.
Corley Walsh
Corley Walsh commented
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mSsdQ00EkQE
In this video Walter neves changes his opinion saying luzia did not cross the Pacific Ocean and that Native Americans skull size and features evolved over time
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Virginia Lou answered

Dear Corley Walsh,

You are doing some really interesting study...the YouTube you found was very interesting...and I located a NY Times article that suggests the connection with the Australians. These folks speculate that Negroid peoples were in SE Asia, from whence some went to Australia (ancestors of the aborigines) and others to the Americas.

http://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/26/science/an-ancient-skull-challenges-long-held-theories.html

Also found a photo of Luzia skull for you! Also came across a reconstruction...she was very pretty!


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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Oh...I see in your comment above, you have a source speculating Luzia's ancestors may have come to the Americas BY WAY OF Australia first...that would be an even closer connection...
Corley Walsh
Corley Walsh commented
Yeah it's very interesting how their dna points to Australia and Mongolia both which explains why they didn't look Asian except for the skull size

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