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9,900-Year-Old Skeleton Discovered in Submerged Mexican Cave Has a Distinctive Skull
SciTechDaily ^ | 02/05/2020 | PLOS

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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TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; cave; godsgravesglyphs; mexican; mexico; quintanaroo; skull; tulm
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To: BenLurkin

...And Steven Speiberg and George Lucas are inbound to film it for the next Indiana Jones movie...


21 posted on 02/06/2020 1:13:45 PM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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To: wastoute

For a century they have been hiding anything that doesn’t support that. Why? Who knows?

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There’s a double fisted crap ton of money in being the “first victims” of the dreaded evil white man.

Anything reminding that the “first victims” were supreme in the New World *because* they’d slaughtered everyone who wasn’t them long ago, and were still in the process of slaughtering each other at every opportunity tarnishes the sainted victim status and threatens all that money.


22 posted on 02/06/2020 1:15:29 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

I get they do that now but why a century ago?


23 posted on 02/06/2020 1:16:21 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: BenLurkin
Typical biased article...it failed to mention she is very Pro-Trump.


24 posted on 02/06/2020 1:26:40 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Awesome!


25 posted on 02/06/2020 1:28:03 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: ZinGirl

It could be her. She looks 9,900 years old.


26 posted on 02/06/2020 1:29:59 PM PST by EvilCapitalist (If it takes a bloodbath, let's get it over with. No more appeasement. -Ronald Reagan)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Just a bit anorexic?


27 posted on 02/06/2020 1:30:12 PM PST by doorgunner69 (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading - T Jefferson)
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To: wastoute

I get they do that now but why a century ago?

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the grants and gov money flowing into the associated issues even a century ago was fair large. The skim depended on keeping those monies flowing. The money flow required the oh so heart on sleeve liberal tear jerker prone types to be fully convinced of the post-modern interp of the native Americans being the sainted victim.

Leftists and their idiocies are not new to this century. Those who prey upon and profit from the same are not either.

And, also, a reason behind the hiding of anything strange or differing from the “in the book assumptions” on archaeology, paleontology or anthropology traces back to the Piltdown Man.

“Science” became so embarrassed by that event that for a long time anything unusual that came up was automatically written off as fraud and squashed.

There is still quite a bit of that going on in the above named “sciences”.


28 posted on 02/06/2020 1:36:08 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Grimmy

It just seems to me that with the “Zeitgist” of the times America would have been very receptive to a “White Men were here first.” Which is why I am so curious.


29 posted on 02/06/2020 1:40:44 PM PST by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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To: wastoute

A counter stream to that “Zeitgist” was the growing belief in, again, that post modernist invention called “The Noble Savage”.

A people of great virtue and honor. Warring against the spread of white evilness. The pure people of nature.

The big city socialists, far removed from the reality of events, ate it up with a spoon so they didn’t miss a single slurp. And that’s where a whole lot of the money was coming from.


30 posted on 02/06/2020 1:56:31 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: BenLurkin

I like think about how did Americans get to America. I heard that Egyptians sailed to America, also the Welsh, Irish and Chinese. The Kennewick Man is not Native American looking, so how did he get there. Earth’s history and how it was settled is interesting.


31 posted on 02/06/2020 2:01:42 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: Deplorable American1776

The chinese have issued a statement that they were her first and have given us 2 weeks notice to get OUT!


32 posted on 02/06/2020 2:14:22 PM PST by oldasrocks (Heavily Medicated for your Protection.)
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To: Deplorable American1776

Thee are sites from california to south America that date back 160,000 years


33 posted on 02/06/2020 2:19:06 PM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: dsrtsage
Space or Illegals? 😋
34 posted on 02/06/2020 2:24:20 PM PST by Deplorable American1776 (Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is, too. :-))
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To: BenLurkin

Pretty damn big eye sockets.
Disappointed in the phots.


35 posted on 02/06/2020 2:24:53 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.?)
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To: BenLurkin
"Look, they've found Uncle Ralph!"


36 posted on 02/06/2020 2:31:56 PM PST by moovova
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To: BenLurkin
On a roll
37 posted on 02/06/2020 2:40:10 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver
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To: BenLurkin

Too much processed cereal.

38 posted on 02/06/2020 2:43:48 PM PST by bgill
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To: BenLurkin

Early illegal aliens.


39 posted on 02/06/2020 5:04:07 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Ban Carbon Dioxide! It's twice as bad as Carbon Monoxide!!!)
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To: wastoute

so they can continue to say that the land was stolen from indigenous people... also, why doesn’t anyone ask if the water was rising this whole time, maybe suv’s aren’t the cause


40 posted on 02/06/2020 5:25:32 PM PST by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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