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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).. |
