[Aztlan] Re : OLDEST HUMAN EVER FOUND IN THE AMERICAS ENGLISH TRANSLATION

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You can get a french resume of this news here :
http://mexiqueancien.blogspot.com

2008/8/14, michael ruggeri <michaelruggeri en mac.com>:
>
> Listeros,
>
> Bruce Rogers provides us with an English translation of the Milenio
> article I posted yesterday.
>
> Mike Ruggeri
>
>
> "Eve of Naranan" (of Tulum), the oldest woman of the American
> continent announced at the Early Wo/Man in America symposium
>
> By Leticia Sánchez,  August 13, 2008
>
> "Eva de Naharon" was 45 years old when she died and measured 1.41
> meters high. Her bones have rested for 13,600 years say specialists.
>
> The last 95,000 years of history of the wo/men are not as well known
> as the last 5,000 years of documented humanity. However, Mexico has
> contributed with the finding and dating of the oldest remains found
> of the continent in Naharon, Quintana Roo.
>
> [[The Systema de Naranjal- Orange Grove Cave - is No. 4 in length in
> Mexico with about 24,257 meters of passage descending to a depth of
> 34.7 m below its entrance just above sea level (~2.76 miles x 114
> ft.).  There are 8 cenote entrances to this system.  Data from A./T.
> Kampe as of April/May of 2008. <http://www.caves.org/project/qrss/
> qrlong.htm>
>
> These caves caves have formed in Cretaceous and Tertiary Period
> limestone (~144 million to 2 million years old) some 3,400 m thick.
> The caves themselves started forming about 125,000 years ago  when
> sea level was approximately 125 m (~400 ft.) below its present
> level.  About 18,000 years ago sea level started slowly rising.  This
> subsequent, slow sea level rise, stabilizing at about 7,000 years
> ago, flooded most of these caves, thus requiring SCUBA gear to
> explore, plus a slight propensity toward insanity.]]
>
> These remains belonged to a woman 45 years of age, a meter, 41
> centimeters of stature and a weight of 53 kilograms. A carbon 14 date
> shows her remains are 13,600 years old, turns which her into the
> "Senior Woman" of the region, even older than the "Mujer de Penon de
> los Banos (Woman of the Rock Baths)," who is approximately 12,600
> years old.
>
> Arthur González, director of the Coahuila Desert Museum; the
> anthropologist Jiménez Conception, Director of Physical Anthropology
> inthe INAH; anthropologist Gabriel Saucedo of the National Institute
> of Medical Sciences; and Nutricion Salvador Zubirán, will announce
> the find of this early wo/man at the Fourth International Symposium
> of Early Man in the Americas that will be held from the 18 to the 22
> of August at the Mexican National Museum of Anthropology.
>
> In this forum, investigations like this one will assist giving
> answers to the problem of peopling the continent.
>
> Also participating will be Carlos Lorenzo, member of the equipment of
> Eudald Carbonell, in Atapuerca, Spain, one of the more important
> archaeological sites of the human evolution.
>
> Also participating will be Argentine investigator Luis Lanata who
> maintains that the human groups arrived in America more than 18,000
> years ago.
>
> One of the displays that will call further attention to the early
> peopling of the Americas is one presented by James Chatters about the
> Kenewick Man whose remains have generated much controversy by their
> population affiliation.
>
> Tulum in history
> Two weeks ago in the World Congress of Archaeology in Ireland, the
> discovery of "Eva of Naharon" was announced by a spokesman for
> paleontologist Arthur González.  The remains were located in clear
> water in a cave located to 44.5 (~27 mi.) kilometers to the southwest
> of the town of Tulum, in the Orange Grove Cave System.
>
> In this place, explained the paleontologist, was the partially
> complete skeleton of a woman between 30 and 40 years of age, 1.41
> meters (about 4 ft. 7 inches) tall and weighing about 53 kilograms
> (117 lbs.).
>
>  From the bones of Naharon, a 14carbon date was obtained, through
> Accelerated Mass Spectrometer (AMS) techniques, which gave an age of
> 13,600 years.
>
> González explained that the collagen found in the bone cavities was
> in poor state of preservation.  Thus the specialists at Oxford
> University and University of California Berkeley had to work with
> little the material obtained from the bones, which had remained under
> the water for more than 13 thousand years.
>
> "We did not know that Ice Age man had left us in Tulum, the funeral
> testimony of a woman who died at age 45 and has an antiquity of
> 13,600 years," added Arthur González.
>
> The discovery was not fortuitous, but is part of the work on the
> Archaeological Atlas Project in the (Quintana roo) region. The
> entrance was accessed through a natural well (cenote) of 30 by 45
> meters (98 x 148 ft.) in diameter. The human bones were located to
> 368 meters (1207 ft.) from the entrance of the next oquedad, also
> called Naharon , at a depth of 22.6 meters (74 ft.).
>
> In reference to this finding, the anthropologist Conception Jiménez,
> indicated that until a few years ago the oldest human remains in the
> Americas were those of the "Mujer de Penon" - Woman of the Rock
> Baths, dated to 12,600 years old eight years ago in 2000 by the
> 14carbon methods. It was remembered that that woman's bones were
> found in an unarticulated state when Mr. Tereso Hernandez dug a well
> in his property in the Mexico City.
>
> In the grand scheme of things, Arthur González, indicated that more
> archaeologists, biologists, and paleontologists interested in the
> study of the origin of the man are needed.
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