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Bones may be Americas oldest human skeletons PDF Print E-mail
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Friday, 10 September 2004
Undersea find means reappraisal of the land bridge migration theory

By JOHN RICE
Associated Press

MEXICO CITY - Divers making dangerous probes through underwater caves near the Caribbean coast have discovered what appears to be one of oldest human skeletons in the Americas, archaeologists announced at a seminar. The report by a team from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History at the international "Early Man in America" seminar that was ending on Friday exploits a new way of investigating the past. Most coastal settlements by early Americans now lie deep beneath the sea, which was hundreds of feet lower during the Ice Age than now.

The discoveries fall close to the start of the time that traditional theories say a so-called Clovis culture could have moved from Asia to Alaska over a temporary land bridge that existed about 13,500 years ago.

Many academics argue that new discoveries, especially in South America, prove the Clovis people found existing inhabitants, who may have arrived by hopscotching past the northern ice fields in small boats.

Arturo Gonzalez said his team discovered at least three skeletons in caves along the Caribbean coast of Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula in 2001 and 2002. Photos showed two remarkably well preserved.

"It's something that I had been dreaming of for many years," said Gonzalez, 39, who has combined diving and research since he was a teenager. "To find a person who had walked those caves was like a treasure."

Gonzalez said the bones must date from before the time waters gradually seeped through the caves 8,000 to 9,000 years ago as Ice Age glaciers melted and sea level rose by about 400 feet worldwide.

Tests on charcoal found beside one female skeleton would place it as at least 10,000 years old. An expert at the University of California, Riverside, dated the skeleton as 11,670 radiocarbon years old — which would translate to well over 13,000 calendar years.

If confirmed, "that would be the oldest" radio carbon date in the Americas obtained from a human bone.

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/nation/2787162
 
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