Sinodonty, Sundadonty, and the Beringian Standstill model: Issues of timing and migrations into the New World

C.G. Turner II made dental morphological observations on thousands of Eskimo-Aleuts and American Indians and concluded they were derived from ancestral populations in northeast Asia during the last stages of the Pleistocene. He further distinguished two dental patterns in Asia. In East Asia, populat...

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Published in:Quaternary international Vol. 466; pp. 233 - 246
Main Authors: Scott, G. Richard, Schmitz, Kirk, Heim, Kelly N., Paul, Kathleen S., Schomberg, Roman, Pilloud, Marin A.
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier Ltd 18.02.2018
Subjects:
American Indians
Beringian Standstill
Biodistance
data collection
Dental morphology
East Asia
geneticists
North America
Peopling Americas
South America
Southeast Asians
teeth
South America
East Asia
North America
Dental morphology
Beringian Standstill
Peopling Americas
Biodistance
ISSN:1040-6182, 1873-4553
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Summary:C.G. Turner II made dental morphological observations on thousands of Eskimo-Aleuts and American Indians and concluded they were derived from ancestral populations in northeast Asia during the last stages of the Pleistocene. He further distinguished two dental patterns in Asia. In East Asia, populations exhibit Sinodonty, a specialized dentition with intensified trait expressions. Southeast Asians exhibit Sundadonty, a more generalized dentition for crown and root traits. Turner argued all New World groups were derived from Sinodonts. Recent work has led some researchers to conclude there is evidence for the Sundadont pattern in Native American populations, an observation in accord with craniometric research that argues for an early migration of a generalized Asian population, followed by an influx of more specialized northeast Asians. A reanalysis of Turner's dataset fails to reveal evidence for a Sundadont component in the settlement of the Americas, but it does provide support for the Beringian Standstill model proposed by geneticists.
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ISSN:1040-6182
1873-4553
DOI:10.1016/j.quaint.2016.04.027