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Science 23 April 1965:
Vol. 148. no. 3669, pp. 496 - 497
DOI: 10.1126/science.148.3669.496
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Human Skeletons of Tehuacán

James E. Anderson 1

1 Department of Anthropology, State University of New York, Buffalo 14

The oldest series of human skeletons in the New World shows a high incidence of traumatic lesions during the early nomadic hunting and gathering phase, dental patterns which reflect the transition to an agricultural economy, some evidences of microevolution occurring in a local population, and one probable example of pre-Columbian syphilis.


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