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New evidence for an early settlement of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico: The Chan Hol 3 woman and her meaning for the Peopling of the Americas.
Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang; Rennie, Samuel R; Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo; Stinnesbeck, Sarah R; Gonzalez, Silvia; Frank, Norbert; Warken, Sophie; Schorndorf, Nils; Krengel, Thomas; Velázquez Morlet, Adriana; González González, Arturo.
Afiliação
  • Stinnesbeck W; Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Rennie SR; School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Avilés Olguín J; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom.
  • Stinnesbeck SR; Museo del Desierto, Carlos Abedrop Dávila, Nuevo Centro Metropolitano de Saltillo, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.
  • Gonzalez S; Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Karlsruhe, Geowissenschaftliche Abteilung, Erbprinzstrasse, Karlsuhe, Germany.
  • Frank N; School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
  • Warken S; Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Schorndorf N; Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Krengel T; Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • Velázquez Morlet A; Institut für Umweltphysik, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
  • González González A; Institut für Geowissenschaften, Universität Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld, Heidelberg, Germany.
PLoS One ; 15(2): e0227984, 2020.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32023279
Human presence on the Yucatán Peninsula reaches back to the Late Pleistocene. Osteological evidence comes from submerged caves and sinkholes (cenotes) near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. Here we report on a new skeleton discovered by us in the Chan Hol underwater cave, dating to a minimum age of 9.9±0.1 ky BP based on 230Th/U-dating of flowstone overlying and encrusting human phalanges. This is the third Paleoindian human skeleton with mesocephalic cranial characteristics documented by us in the cave, of which a male individual named Chan Hol 2 described recently is one of the oldest human skeletons found on the American continent. The new discovery emphasizes the importance of the Chan Hol cave and other systems in the Tulum area for understanding the early peopling of the Americas. The new individual, here named Chan Hol 3, is a woman of about 30 years of age with three cranial traumas. There is also evidence for a possible trepanomal bacterial disease that caused severe alteration of the posterior parietal and occipital bones of the cranium. This is the first time that the presence of such disease is reported in a Paleoindian skeleton in the Americas. All ten early skeletons found so far in the submerged caves from the Yucatán Peninsula have mesocephalic cranial morphology, different to the dolicocephalic morphology for Paleoindians from Central Mexico with equivalent dates. This supports the presence of two morphologically different Paleoindian populations for Mexico, coexisting in different geographical areas during the Late Pleistocene-Early Holocene.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Cavernas / Fósseis Limite: Adult / Female / Humans País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha País de publicação: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Cavernas / Fósseis Limite: Adult / Female / Humans País/Região como assunto: Mexico Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2020 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Alemanha País de publicação: Estados Unidos