The pristine skeleton of a teenaged girl who lived about 13,000 - TopicsExpress



          

The pristine skeleton of a teenaged girl who lived about 13,000 years ago, discovered in a deep, water-filled underground cavern in the sprawling cave system in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is providing archeologists with an unprecedented glimpse into the history of the early inhabitants of the Americas. Given the name Naia, Greek for “water nymph,” the remains of the 15- or 16-year-old girl were found at the bottom of the boulder-strewn, underwater chamber dubbed Hoyo Negro – “black hole” in Spanish – along with the scattered bones of 26 large animal species, among them sabre-tooth tigers, giant ground sloths and cave bears.
Posted on: Fri, 16 May 2014 12:41:47 +0000

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