Thank you for that link, it is all new to me. I just discovered the kow swamp people today, as well as a whole lot of australasian history.
very interesting but head binding does not acount for the whole range of differences between the kow swamp people and the modern austrailian.
The kow swamp people more resemble robust people from levant 100k years ago than they do modern australasians.
One thing that caught my eye was a reference to northern and southern proto-mongoloids, and how the two populations had density maximums at different times that corresponded to different times before or after the the glacial maximun.
Apperantly the northern proto-mongoloids reached a population density maximun before and into the glacial maximum. This correlates to a population that was adapted to a meat intensive diet of a mega fauna hunter. Conversely southern proto-mongoloids reached their zenith in the warming period after the glacial maximum and were adapted to a plant based diet.
The differences show in the teeth with the norther population being sinodonts and the spouthern population being sundadonts.
Anthropologist Christy Turner identified two patterns, Sinodonty and Sundadonty, for East Asia, within the "Mongoloid dental complex"[1]. The latter is regarded as having a more generalised, Australoid morphology and having a longer ancestry than its offspring, Sinodonty.
Sino and Sunda refer to China and Sundaland, while 'dont' refers to teeth.
He found the Sundadont pattern in the Jōmon of Japan, Taiwanese aborigines, Filipinos, Indonesians, Thais, Borneans, Laotians, and Malaysians, and the Sinodont pattern in the inhabitants of China, Mongolia, eastern Siberia, Native Americans, and the Yayoi.
Sinodonty is a particular pattern of teeth common among Native Americans and some peoples in Asia, in particular the northern Han Chinese and some Japanese populations. The upper first two incisors are not aligned with the other teeth, but rotated a few degrees inward, and, moreover, they are shovel-shaped; the upper first premolar has one root (whereas the upper first premolar in Caucasians has normally two roots). The lower first molar in Sinodonts has three roots (whereas it has two roots in Caucasians).
In the 1990s, Turner's dental measurements were frequently mentioned as one of three new tools for studying origins and migrations of human populations. The other two were linguistic methods like Joseph Greenberg's mass comparison of vocabulary or Johanna Nichols's statistical study of language typology and its evolution, and genetic studies pioneered by Cavalli-Sforza.
Today, the largest number of references on the web to Turner's work are from discussions of the origin of Paleo-Indians and modern Native Americans, including the Kennewick Man controversy. Turner found that the dental remains of both ancient and modern Indians are more similar to each other than they are to dental complexes from other continents, but that the Sinodont patterns of the Paleoindians identify their ancestral homeland as north-east Asia. Some later studies have questioned this and found Sundadont features in some American peoples.
Africans and caucasians are all sundadonts as well which indicates that the sundadonts are the older population.
At this point my argument turns in on itself, if australasians were the fore runners of some of the people who populated the americas why is it that the native americans tend towards sinodonty, the younger dental pattern?
The key lies earlier in the history, in my opinion, when modern man developed in central asia he split into two populations.
The northern population was adapted both culturaley and physicaly to a cold climate and meat intensive diet.
While their southern cousins lived in a milder climate that fostered a gatherer /hunter lifestyle that predominately subsisted on a diet rich in plants. this lifestyle in turn led the development of agriculture in some areas of the world.
Another intersting foot note is that the people of the adaman islands and the small populations in tibet are closely related to the ainu and people of the rykuyus.
Both of whom are linked with the early modern aboriginal people of aus.
For those who dont know who the adaman islanders are a population of tribal oceanic boat dwellers in the adaman sea west of myranmar and thialand.
Some of the adaman islander live most of their lives at sea only putting in to solid land when in need.
They have been living a boat based lifestyle for thousands of years in the eastern indian ocean.
Could they be the descendants of the boat people who populated aus and the coastal areas of the new world.
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to the notion that a a tool and fire using primate evolved separately independant of any african of asian homonids.
Always a pleasure. 
