A prehistoric human skeleton from the end of the last Ice Age has been unearthed in a cave system in Mexico.
Because of its distance from the cave entrance, the skeleton where it was found could not be descended without modern diving equipment.
“We don’t know if the body was left there or if this person died here,” said archaeologist Octavio del Rio.
Del Rio and colleagues found the remains covered in sediment about 26 feet under the sea off the country’s Caribbean coast. He has worked on projects with the National Institute of Anthropology and History in the past.
“We don’t know its gender or size yet,” Del Rio said in an interview with Reforma. [الشخص], how much he weighs and if he is sick. We don’t know how he died. After the remains are removed from the cave, laboratory analysis will determine these details.”
The location of the cave has not been disclosed for fear of theft, but it is said to be near where the Mexican government sampled the forest to leave a mark.
Experts believe that some of these caves are threatened by development projects in the country such as the Maya Railroad.
If the construction of Tramo 5 Sur goes ahead as planned, del Rio, who has explored the area for three decades, said: “The train will pass through a 60-kilometer area, which is a unique archaeological site.”
We want a change of course at this point because of the archaeological finds and significance found here. Let them get on the train and put it where they said they were going to be.”
However, del Rio said that the archaeologist of the institute, Carmen Rojas, told him that the site is registered and will be explored by the Holocene Archeology Project of the Quintana Roo state Institute.
“There is still a lot of work to be done for the correct interpretation of the discovery,” continued Del Rio.
In 2002, he co-discovered and cataloged the remains known as the Naharun Woman, who died at the same time as or perhaps earlier than Naya, the nearly complete skeleton of a young woman who died about 13,000 years ago.
Source: Daily Mail
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