Posted on 08/31/2010 6:05:12 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
One of the earliest human skeletons of America, which belonged to a person that lived more than 10,000 years ago, in the Ice Age, was recovered by Mexican specialists from a flooded cave in Quintana Roo. The information it has lodged for centuries will reveal new data regarding the settlement of the Americas.
The Young Man of Chan Hol, as the skeleton is known among the scientific community, due to the slight tooth wear it presents, which indicates an early age, is the fourth of our earliest ancestors found in the American Continent, and has been studied as part of a National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) project.
After 3 years of studies conducted In Situ to prevent information loss, the Chan Hol skeleton was subtracted from the water by a team of specialists headed by biologist Arturo Gonzalez, coordinator of the project Study of Pre Ceramic Men of Yucatan Peninsula and director of Museo del Desierto de Coahuila (Museum of the Desert of Coahuila), with the participation of speleodivers Eugenio Acevez, Jeronimo Aviles and Luis Garcia, part of the recently founded Instituto de la Prehistoria de America (Institute for American Prehistory), funded by INAH.
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I wonder if he invented desert pastureland as well? ;’)
[cues up “I’m My Own Grandpa”]
net feral....
Thanks, everyone!
LOL (where apropos). I wonder if the divers had to push the recent victims out of the way to get to the old guy?
Good point LL, the time frame for Clovis varies on the continents.
Not my most excellent point — all credit goes to “muawiyah.” Now if I could just pronounce his screen name.
Kuelap - The Machu Picchu Of Northern Peru (Chachapoyas - White, blonde haired people)
More like Azerbaijan.
Mr. Baracko?
(see about page)
A local celebrity.
There's a pretty decent History Channel thing that goes to that area ~ Andean foothills ~ and shows the "clouds".
People are alla time looking for blue-eyed blonds somewhere in the Americas PRIOR to Columbus, or even the Vikings, and yet the very ancestors of the FIRST blue-eyed blonds were here before the Ice Age ended and before there ever were any blue-eyed blonds.
It's a condition that only arises about 5,000 years ago ~ after red heads!
Further East ~ don’t be misled by the appearance of the Indo-European languages around the Black Sea basin. There were plenty of other great places to hunt!
Quintana Roo ping
He ended up in the bottom of a cenote? Boy, Spring Break in Cancun went bad for this guy . . . .
Turns out, he’s a merman, and was on his way up from the mer-kingdom, an underground watery lair, when he was offed by some nimrod dropping rocks in for no reason.
Thanks wolfcreek!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1691166/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2299740/posts
Here’s a better (and the one I wanted to post) article about the *Leanderthal Lady*
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/learning/webcasts/time/resources/leanderthal.phtml
Your record keeping/search techniques...superior. My memory, not so much.
What's weird is that older site didn't come up in my latest search.
An interesting one at that.
Thanks wc. My problem is, I remember so many things that never happened. ;’)
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