[Aztlan] ANCIENT SKELETONS INCLUDING OLDEST HUMAN IN THE AMERICAS ARE ASIAN

[michael ruggeri]

Listeros,

I have found an article published in June by INAH about the skeletons  
found in the Quintana Roo cenote and before they got a radio carbon  
date on the woman who has turned out to be the oldest human ever  
found in the Americas. The article indicates that there were 3 other  
skeletons found and they have Asian characteristics. I will re-print  
the whole article since it may be difficult to link to the original  
article.

Mike Ruggeri


Fourth Pleistocene skeleton discovered at Maya Riviera, Quintana Roo

Human bones found in a submerged cavern at Quintana Roo Mexican state  
represent an important contribution to investigations related to the  
presence of early man in America, and Mexico Southeast, informed  
biologist Arturo Gonzalez Gonzalez, director of the project “Pre  
ceramic human groups in Quintana Roo”, through systematic register of  
evidences found submerged at flooded caves.

Along with Quintana Roo INAH archaeologist Carmen Rojas Sandoval, the  
biologist stated that the salvage of this skeleton represented an  
important challenge for the interdisciplinary investigation team  
gathered by INAH.

Quintana Roo Speleological Survey (QRSS) founded 3 skeletons in the  
same area between 2003 and 2005. This time, speleo-diver Robbie  
Smithers collaborates as a QRSS member.

Located 550 yards away from the cave entrance and submerged, the  
bones presented a fragile condition; “ the skeleton recently found  
will be meticulously registered in situ, before its removal from the  
flooded rocky bed; this requires many immersions and more than a  
year,” stated Arturo Gonzalez.

The skull conserves 10 teeth, which will help us date it by means of  
Carbon 13 tests: “ we can find out how they fed, if their diet was  
composed mainly of sea or land animals”, commented the biologist.

Arturo Gonzalez, who also is director of the Dessert Museum in  
Coahuila, explained this finding sums up o other 3 skeletons found in  
the Riviera Maya region; all four compound the Ice Age skeleton  
collection of Mexico, one of the oldest in America.

Dating of this anthropological material determined these persons  
lived 8,000 to 13,000 years ago. The age given to these skeletons is  
similar to the one established for the ones Tom Dillehay found in  
southern Chile, and to some found in Alaska and northern USA.

“Humankind appearing at the same time in the continent does not seem  
possible. We are still far from understanding humankind history in  
America. This new evidence makes invalid most accepted theories about  
how America was inhabited”, expressed Arturo Gonzalez.

One theory suggests that humans crossed from Europe by sea, passing  
through Greenland to North America. Other theory affirms they crossed  
from northern Asia to America through strait of Bering. A third one  
points out Polynesian groups arrived to South America by sea.

Gonzalez Gonzalez and National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM)  
MD Alejandro Terrazas declared that physical anthropology studies  
reveal is that skeletons are not related to Maya groups, but to  
Asian, specifically, from regions near India.

“The place where we found the skeleton determines that Ice Age humans  
looked for locations far away from the entrance to place their  
departed, which was not a common practice in America at that point.  
Two skeletons were found in a flexed position: this signals they were  
moved here by other persons, which makes them ritual burials”.

“We must remember these caves were not flooded when humans used them  
by the end of Pleistocene, at least 10,000 years ago. At that time,  
tiny water drops formed stalactites and stalagmites inside the caves”.

Yucatan area was different to the jungle we see, looking more as a  
desert prairie; people and animals looked for shelter and water in  
the deep segments of caverns.

Arturo Gonzalez concluded the Cenote projects that began 10 years ago  
place Mexico as a pioneer in submerged underground systems  
archaeological registration. The results are well known worldwide and  
“Nature” and “National Geographic” magazines have published articles  
on this regard.


Mike Ruggeri's Pre-Clovis and Clovis World
http://tinyurl.com/2m8725

Breaking Pre-Clovis and Clovis News
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MikeRuggerisPre/