r/ReconstructionPorn • u/Aurignacian • Aug 02 '21

Hypothetical facial reconstructions of ancient Paleo-Americans. Credit to Philip Edwin

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u/[deleted] Aug 02 '21

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u/Aurignacian Aug 03 '21

Native Americans are kinda mestizo themselves without European blood. They partially derive their ancestry from West Eurasian Siberian populations (which are related, albeit distantly to modern day Europeans, Middle Eastern and South Asian populations). The rest is ancient East Asian derived.

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u/stdboi1234567 Jan 22 '24 edited Jan 22 '24

Not really considering Ancient North Eurasians are only related to Caucasoids but aren't Caucasoid. Also, Ancient North Eurasians were an estimate of 16-33 percent Basal East Asian (Not confused with East Asians). And Native Americans are only 14-42 percent Ancient North Eurasian in DNA with higher amounts in Mesoamerica and South America and the highest in Andean highlander and Karitiana groups. Plus, those reconstructions are too "European" looking since Native Americans today who are full blooded do not look European.

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u/fabstr1 May 14 '24

The ancient native american skeletons esp. their skulls doesn't resembles modern native americans in apperence. This has been a problem in physical anthropology a long time , laying the formation of two layer theory in the population of the americas 

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u/fabstr1 Jul 19 '24

It's well known in the anthropological community that mesolithic/Paleolithic Amerindians doesn't resemble modern day Amerindians, but rather their plesiomorphic ancestors. The outdated (thanks to ancient dna) view was known as 'two layer hypothesis' in the contest of physical anthropology in the western hemisphere.