Undersea Cave Yields One of Oldest Skeletons in Americas

National Geographic ^ | September 14, 2010 | Ker Than

[nickcarraway]

[RockinRight]

Obligatory Helen Thomas Pic in 4...3...2...1...

[bamahead]

/mark

[Dem Guard]

“The discovery supports the idea that multiple groups of migrants may have entered North America.”

It seems almost every day we hear about new groups that came here thousands of years ago. I’d suggest looking
for the street signs that controlled all of the traffic. lol

[The Comedian]

Alas-poor-Nautilus-crewman ping.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[TheThirdRuffian]

I’ve been giving my Apache wife (3/4 blood, born on the reservation) heck ever since the Clovis people turned out to be relatively recent immigrants.

So much for Native American, eh?

She took it reasonably well and then hid my sun screen and my hat when I went to the field.

[arthurus]

subterranean caves

What other sorts of caves are there?

[sappy]

“...No fewer than 10,000 years ago, Chan Hol filled with seawater as Ice Age ice caps melted, the researchers say...”

What made the ice age ice caps melt, then? /sarc

[wideminded]

What made the ice age ice caps melt, then?

The end of the ice age.

[hellbender]

Today, the Yucatán Peninsula is covered by rain forests, but when the Young Man of Chan Hol lived, it was a semiarid savannah

Impossible. This implies that there was (gasp) Climate Change long before the Industrial Revolution. You must be receiving funds from Big Oil.

[TheThirdRuffian]

"What made the ice age ice caps melt, then?"

The hottness of Raquel Welch

[Political Junkie Too]

Mastodon flatulence?

-PJ

[DUMBGRUNT]

Is this group kin to the kennewick man?

[Dem Guard]

"Is this group kin to the kennewick man?"

They will have to check his drivers license. ;-)

[Doulos1]

“legs bent and arms held down to the side”???
Looks like a pile of bones spit out by a shark.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

OOh! OOh! OOh!......

[NativeSon]

don’t blame me, my tribe only drove hybrid horses

[sappy]

awesome!

[Mikey_1962]

Reminds me of pilotless drones.

[conservativeharleyguy]

Actually, her Apache ancestors were probably among the last arrivals to enter the American Southwest before the Spaniards showed up. Their own creation legends notwithstanding.

The linguistically Athab(p)askan-based tribes in the SW, including the Apaches, Navajo are relative newcomers, started arriving from way up north (their closest linguistic relatives are in northern canada and Alaska) about 1000-800 years ago and either pushed others out of what are now their lands (by force), and/or were tough and adaptable enough to occupy fringe areas that other tribes found inhospitable. Most assuredly a bloody business...