The oldest skull Luzia

Until recently, the oldest human skull found in americas was dated 9,000 years and coincided with the morphology of existing indigenous people, descendants of Asians who crossed by Bering.
But recent findings suggest that before his arrival and there were people on the continent.

In 1999 appeared in Brazil remains Luzia, a woman whose skull dated at 11,500 years, did not have Mongoloid features, but some resemblance to the Australian Aborigines.

Two years ago he left a competitor in Mexico. This is the skull of a woman Pericu, a group that lived
in Baja California and that became extinct in the eighteenth century by diseases carried by the Spaniards. Well, through DNA analysis and carbon 14, the archaeologist Silvia Gonzalez had dated this skull, called Women of Rock, in 12,755 years.
He belonged to a couple of 26 years who died near the current Mexico City.

The Pericu were higher than the Indians and their heads closer and long, too similar, according to Gonzalez, to the peoples of Australia and the South Pacific.

The Women of the Rock is the oldest of the 27 skeletons Pericu stored in the Museum of Anthropology in Mexico.
But many archaeologists do not accept the thesis of Silvia Gonzalez and continue to treat Luzia as the "Old americas."