When I was doing the research for my post about the slope-headed skull found in Nevada, I came across a term coined by an aracheologist named Neumann who categorized skull shapes. He called the Karankawa Indians of Coastal Texas "Otamids" of a type that he referred to as the "first migration" people of the United States (as opposed to Native Americans who were the "second migration"). The skulls of the Karankawa Indians (who were very tall in stature), were unusual and reminiscent of what they considered to be some "relic primitive man." We are not talking about craniosynostosis - a condition of mal-fusing of the skull bones. We are talking about a genetically predetermined shape to the skulls of the people that is across the board in their population.
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