Posted on 02/06/2020 12:30:28 PM PST by BenLurkin
Humans have been living in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula since at least the Late Pleistocene (126,000-11,700 years ago). Much of what we know about these earliest settlers of Mexico comes from nine well-preserved human skeletons found in the submerged caves and sinkholes near Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico.
The analysis showed Chan Hol 3 was likely a woman, approximately 30 years old at her time of death, and lived at least 9,900 years ago. Her skull falls into a mesocephalic pattern (neither especially broad or narrow, with broad cheekbones and a flat forehead), like the three other skulls from the Tulum caves used for comparison; all Tulum cave skulls also had tooth cavities, potentially indicating a higher-sugar diet.
This contrasts with most of the other known American crania in a similar age range, which tend to be long and narrow, and show worn teeth (suggesting hard foods in their diet) without cavities.
Though limited by the relative lack of archeological evidence for early settlers across the Americas, the authors suggest that these cranial patterns suggest the presence of at least two morphologically different human groups living separately in Mexico during this shift from the Pleistocene to the Holocene (our current epoch).
The authors add: “The Tulúm skeletons indicate that either more than one group of people reached the American continent first, or that there was enough time for a small group of early settlers who lived isolated on the Yucatán peninsula to develop a different skull morphology. The early settlement history of America thus seems to be more complex and, moreover, to have occurred at an earlier time than previously assumed.”
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Stranded time travelers
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Its Hoffa!
She’s hawt....
Long narrow heads? Those were the ones that made it down the birth canal.
Like ‘em on the thin side, do ya. Nothing wrong with that.
“high cheekbones”?
Princess Buffalo Schitt ancestor?
Too lazy to post an RBG picture...but..ya know
She had those child-bearing hips.
sounds like a reference to clovis.
recent archaeology suggest clovis were solutreans from the atlantic coasts of spain and france at a time when the ice sheets came down into England and spread out across the atlantic south of greenland and iceland.
My first thought: “Oh, I think I like this one. She can’t run away...”
To get to the Yucatán, their undocumented ancestors crossed over the Rio Grande.
Aliens!!!
“...broad cheekbones...”
Nancy’s younger cousin?
Guilty?
I heard you paint houses?
The question that could be asked is whether the cave was underwater when she died or were climatic conditions so different then that the caves were dry. In other words, if near the ocean, were sea levels much lower due to ice accumulation on the continents.
This is a really interesting topic. The “Official” anthropologists insist all the First Americans are brown people from Asia. For a century they have been hiding anything that doesn’t support that. Why? Who knows?
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