Posted on 08/27/2007 11:31:04 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Female bones excavated from the bubbling asphalt in 1914 used to be mounted in the museum, alongside a life-sized dummy purporting to resemble the woman to whom the bones had belonged. The exhibit was called La Brea Woman. La Brea means "the tar" in Spanish. La Brea Woman probably died from injuries inflicted by a blunt instrument: a piece of bone is missing from the top of her skull... Scientists believe that La Brea Woman died with her dog by her side, since canine bones were found near her remains. La Brea Woman is 9,000 years old, has a hole in her head and a broken jaw, and I feel connected to her... La Brea Woman was not part of the tribe that lived in the environs of the tar pits, where she ended up... About two years ago, the tar pits museum removed her exhibit from what is now an emergency exit between the "Invertebrates" case and the "Asphalt and People" case. Her exhibit was removed because the curator, John M. Harris, was worried that this display of historic remains might offend Native Americans or attract attention to her remains... "Actually, she had an ectopic tooth," Christopher Shaw tells me. He is the collections manager... "She had lost many teeth by then," Shaw says, turning the skull in his hands to show La Brea Woman's various defects. "The molar in her lower jaw is impacted." ...La Brea Woman is the oldest known Californian.
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See post #32.
Yeah, I read the rest after I posted, sorry.
Injured when the border crossed her.
No problem, I post on the fly too.
I really hope they do the DNA studies on this one. That ancient DNA is pretty hard to find and every sample is teaching us new things.
As an example, a human tooth from southern Alaska (On Your Knees Cave), dating to 10,300 years ago, produced mtDNA that was found in living individuals stretching along the Pacific coast from California to the tip of South America! Talk about good evidence for an early coastal migration!
The Mysterious Mummies of Mammoth Cave
Unexplainable.Net | Friday, August 31, 2007 | Wm. Douglas Mefford
Posted on 09/02/2007 9:48:53 PM EDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1890352/posts
The little person from Mammoth Cave. Now they wonder if this girl/boy may have been older. Well, with the discovery of the Flores Island "Hobbits";, perhaps there is some validity to the legends of “little people”, leprechauns, etc. Scientists definitely need to be more open minded, and take a closer look at myths and legends for the truths they may reveal. Question. Is it possible to get DNA from the skeletons of creatures found in the La Brea pitz?
I would expect so.
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