Americas' Oldest Skeleton Found in Underwater Cave in Mexico
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Archeologist believe they have found the oldest skeleton in the Americas - in an underwater cave in Mexico. The female skeleton named as Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, is believed to be 13,600 years old.
Link"We don't now how [the people whose remains were found in the caves] arrived and whether they came from the Atlantic, the jungle, or inside the continent," González said.
"But we believe these finds are the oldest yet to be found in the Americas and may influence our theories of how the first people arrived."
In addition to possibly altering the time line of human settlement in the Americas, the remains may cause experts to rethink where the first Americans came from, González added.
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