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Also inhabiting parts of North
America in the Bronze Age were pygmy types, some having a brain capacity
equal to that of a 7-year -old child (950 cc), although their teeth pointed
to middle-aged individuals. These pygmy
types had round (brachycephalic) heads, with very conspicuous large
projecting jaws (prognathous). These
traits link them with the pygmies of Malaya and the Philippines, who are
believed to have originated in southern Mongolia. These types, though still living in east Tennessee as late as
the first millennium BC, range back in time to at least 40,000 years BP, as
shown by carbon-dating (Fell 1982).. |
