Fabra Mariana, Laguens Andrés G, Demarchi Darío A
Museo de Antropología, Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba 5000, Argentina.
Am J Phys Anthropol. 2007 Aug;133(4):1060-6. doi: 10.1002/ajpa.20634.
In this study we test several hypotheses about the peopling of the central territory of Argentina, archaeologically known as Sierras Centrales, by testing the association between four alternative models of the peopling of the area and cranial morphological variation through distance and matrix correlation analyses. Our results show that the ancient inhabitants of Sierras Centrales demonstrated close morphological similarities with the Patagonian and Tierra del Fuego populations. Moreover, the correlation and partial correlation analyses suggest that the peopling of the Sierras Centrales most likely took place as a migratory wave proceeding from the present area of Northeastern Argentina, and continued southward to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego.
在本研究中，我们通过对该地区四种不同的人口迁移模型与颅骨形态变异之间的关联进行距离分析和矩阵相关分析，来检验关于阿根廷中部地区（考古学上称为中央山脉）人口构成的几种假设。我们的结果表明，中央山脉的古代居民与巴塔哥尼亚和火地岛的人群在形态上表现出密切的相似性。此外，相关性分析和偏相关性分析表明，中央山脉的人口迁移很可能是作为一股迁移浪潮从阿根廷东北部的当前地区开始的，并继续向南延伸至巴塔哥尼亚和火地岛。
