Anthropology 2231F/G Lecture Notes - Radiocarbon Dating, Sinodonty And Sundadonty, Transferrin
13 Jul 2012
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What has been found: earliest sites found to be 11,500 b. p. 13,500 years in our calendar years (called calibrated age: history. Early ideas based on biblical records lost venetians or tribes of israel. Believed they were related to east asians. Crossed an ancient land bridge linking northeast asia to. Now know there was a land bridge. Genetics can now tell they are related to northeast. Asians: blood serums certain variations that occur in northeast asia and the americas. Blood transferrin (tf d-chi or d-chinese: mtdna (mitochondrial dna) Haplogroups only 4-5 found in native. X-haplogroups: y-chromosome only in males, passed from father, rate of mutation. Split of asian and north americans sometime between 13,000-20,000 years ago. Dentition great indicator or genetic relationships: pattern of teeth called sinodonty (high frequency of certain dental traits), most common in northeast asia (e. g. china) First upper premolar has one root instead of a double root.
