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North America's Oldest Skeleton Discovery: 13,000-Year-Old Body of 'Naia' Discovered in Mexico
International Business Times ^
| May 15, 2014 19:00 GMT
| Lydia Smith
Posted on 05/16/2014 3:41:26 AM PDT by Candor7
One of the oldest human skeletons in North America has been discovered by a team of international scientists in an underwater Yucatán Peninsula cave............... ......................
The girl's skeleton is exceptionally complete because of the environment in which she died -- she ended up in the right water and in a quiet place without any soil. Her pristine preservation enabled our team to extract enough DNA to determine her shared genetic code with modern Native Americans," she added.
The skeleton, which is now covered in water, is estimated to be between 12,000 and 13,000 years old, suggesting Naia lived in the late Pleistocene or last ice age.................
(Excerpt) Read more at ibtimes.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Education; History; Society
KEYWORDS: dna; mastadon; pleistocene
Oh snap! One more date that Laz missed. He will not be amused.
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:41:26 AM PDT
by
Candor7
To: Lazamataz; Fred Nerks
I wonder what she would say if we could awaken her?
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:42:39 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Candor7
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posted on
05/16/2014 3:49:39 AM PDT
by
jmcenanly
("The more corrupt the state, the more laws." Tacitus, Publius Cornelius)
To: Candor7
In order to assess the age of the skeleton, the team analysed tooth enamel and seeds dropped by bats using radiocarbon dating and calcite deposits found on the bones using the uranium-thorium method. Oh, my. I never realized that bats were so intelligent that they could use radiocarbon dating!
(Ugh, didn't an editor look at this first?)
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posted on
05/16/2014 4:12:15 AM PDT
by
exDemMom
(Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
To: Candor7; SunkenCiv
To: Candor7
I wonder was she in some sort of land deal with a democrat?
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posted on
05/16/2014 4:18:03 AM PDT
by
melsec
(Once a Jolly Swagman camped by a Billabong.)
To: Candor7
I wonder what she would say if we could awaken her?"What's Laz's phone number?"
...then a pause....
"What's a phone?"
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posted on
05/16/2014 4:46:10 AM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
To: Candor7
Keep Bill Clinton away from her!
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posted on
05/16/2014 5:00:46 AM PDT
by
kenmcg
(b)
To: Candor7
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posted on
05/16/2014 5:29:10 AM PDT
by
jch10
(The Democrat mascot shouldnÂ’t be the donkey; it should be the tick.)
To: Candor7
I wonder what she would say if we could awaken her?
Not much we'd understand, at 12,000-13,000 years ago written language was still a few thousand years away. Speech had been going on since 70k to 60k years ago, but would differ from what we could understand today.
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posted on
05/16/2014 6:04:56 AM PDT
by
TexasGunLover
("Either you're with us or you're with the terrorists."-- President George W. Bush)
To: Candor7
Poor girl, you wouldn’t want her to wake up in Mexico, would you?
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posted on
05/16/2014 4:15:18 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: Lazamataz
LOL. Thats the best one so far.
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posted on
05/16/2014 6:24:52 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Fred Nerks
Poor girl, you wouldnt want her to wake up in Mexico, would you?>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Oh my no! She would be wondering why the mastadons are missing and why every one is screaming “chimmichangas!”
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posted on
05/16/2014 6:28:37 PM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
To: Candor7
...I have no idea what chimmichangas might be, but imagine her wondering why everyone spoke Spanish...and worshipped a statue of a foreign looking woman carrying a baby.
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posted on
05/16/2014 7:18:12 PM PDT
by
Fred Nerks
(fair dinkum)
To: Fred Nerks
[Chimmichangas are the Mexican equivalent of Chinese spring rolls, filled with chichen and spices the corn flour/wheat flour wrappers are deep fried , and served with a large dollop of hot sauce and grated cheese with sour creme for dipping.]
The concept of such time travel is fascinating to us, the former reference points are out the window, but 13,000 years ago must have been a very interesting place. Perhaps she would have been in awe of the idea of the immaculate conception etc. But likely she would have been tough as nails, and quite capable of breaking a human beings’s neck so quickly that there would be little defence against it.
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posted on
05/17/2014 2:26:20 AM PDT
by
Candor7
(Obama fascism article:(http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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