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Herrera-Atoche JR, Chatters JC, Cucina A. Unexpected malocclusion in a 13,000-Year-old Late Pleistocene young woman from Mexico. Sci Rep 2022; 12:3997. [PMID: 35256726 PMCID: PMC8901630 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-022-07941-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2021] [Accepted: 02/28/2022] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To analyze the etiological factors behind the malocclusion of a Late Pleistocene woman (named Naia), who is the best-preserved of the earliest individuals of the American continent. The examination of Naia’s malocclusion was performed through cephalometric and occlusal analyses, and by measuring her mandible. Her data were then compared to published data for modern, medieval, and postmedieval samples and seven Late Pleistocene individuals. Naia presented her permanent dentition fully erupted, except for the impacted mandibular third molars. She presented a class II molar malocclusion with crowding. The dental widths and mandible measurements were similar to or smaller than modern standards. The degree of dental wear was light. The cephalometric analysis confirmed a skeletal class II relationship, with a retrusive mandible and protruded upper incisors. Naia’s mild level of dental wear is consistent with a low masticatory force, in a time when the norm was a high amount of grinding. The low masticatory forces help explain Naia’s small jaws and crowding. However, it does not clarify Angle’s class II relationship. Naia is an example that environmental factors are insufficient to explain the onset of malocclusions and emphasizes the importance of understanding hereditary factors’ role.
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Haas R, Watson J, Buonasera T, Southon J, Chen JC, Noe S, Smith K, Llave CV, Eerkens J, Parker G. Female hunters of the early Americas. SCIENCE ADVANCES 2020; 6:6/45/eabd0310. [PMID: 33148651 PMCID: PMC7673694 DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abd0310] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Accepted: 09/18/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We present an archeological discovery and meta-analysis that challenge the man-the-hunter hypothesis. Excavations at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa reveal a 9000-year-old human burial (WMP6) associated with a hunting toolkit of stone projectile points and animal processing tools. Osteological, proteomic, and isotopic analyses indicate that this early hunter was a young adult female who subsisted on terrestrial plants and animals. Analysis of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene burial practices throughout the Americas situate WMP6 as the earliest and most secure hunter burial in a sample that includes 10 other females in statistical parity with early male hunter burials. The findings are consistent with nongendered labor practices in which early hunter-gatherer females were big-game hunters.
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- Randall Haas
- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA.
- Collasuyo Archaeological Research Institute, Jiron Nicaragua 199, Puno, Puno, Peru
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- Arizona State Museum, The University of Arizona, 1013 E. University Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
- School of Anthropology, The University of Arizona, 1009 E. South Campus Drive, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
- Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- W.M. Keck Carbon Cycle Accelerator Mass Spectrometer Facility, University of California Irvine, B321 Croul Hall, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, Penn State University, 410 Carpenter Building, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Collasuyo Archaeological Research Institute, Jiron Nicaragua 199, Puno, Puno, Peru
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- Department of Anthropology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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- Department of Environmental Toxicology, University of California Davis, One Shields Ave., Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Cucina A, Herrera Atoche R, Chatters JC. Oral health and diet of a young Late Pleistocene woman from Quintana Roo, Mexico. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2019; 170:246-259. [DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.23884] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2019] [Revised: 05/24/2019] [Accepted: 06/07/2019] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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- Andrea Cucina
- Facultad de Ciencias AntropológicasUniversidad Autónoma de Yucatán Mérida Yucatán Mexico
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Young D, Patrick S, Steele DG. An Analysis of the Paleoindian Double Burial from Horn Shelter No.2, In Central Texas. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1080/2052546.1987.11909359] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- Diane Young
- Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI 53706
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- Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843
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- Department of Anthropology Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843
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Chatters JC, Kennett DJ, Asmerom Y, Kemp BM, Polyak V, Blank AN, Beddows PA, Reinhardt E, Arroyo-Cabrales J, Bolnick DA, Malhi RS, Culleton BJ, Erreguerena PL, Rissolo D, Morell-Hart S, Stafford TW. Late Pleistocene human skeleton and mtDNA link Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans. Science 2014; 344:750-4. [PMID: 24833392 DOI: 10.1126/science.1252619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 128] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Because of differences in craniofacial morphology and dentition between the earliest American skeletons and modern Native Americans, separate origins have been postulated for them, despite genetic evidence to the contrary. We describe a near-complete human skeleton with an intact cranium and preserved DNA found with extinct fauna in a submerged cave on Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula. This skeleton dates to between 13,000 and 12,000 calendar years ago and has Paleoamerican craniofacial characteristics and a Beringian-derived mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) haplogroup (D1). Thus, the differences between Paleoamericans and Native Americans probably resulted from in situ evolution rather than separate ancestry.
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- James C Chatters
- Applied Paleoscience and DirectAMS, 10322 NE 190th Street, Bothell, WA 98011, USA.
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- Department of Anthropology and Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA
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- Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- School of Geography and Earth Sciences, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1, Canada
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- Instituto Nacional Antropología e Historia, Colonia Centro Histórico, 06060, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
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- Department of Anthropology and Population Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA
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- Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, IL 61801, USA
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- Department of Anthropology and Institutes of Energy and the Environment, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Subdirección de Arqueología Subacuática, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 06070 Mexico City, Mexico
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- Department of Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- Centre for AMS C, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, and Centre for GeoGenetics, Natural History Museum of Denmark, Geological Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
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