Oldest Skeleton in Americas Found in Underwater Cave?

[rayofreason]

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas.

Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeleton—along with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsula—could provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080903-oldest-skeletons.html

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Major find. Couple this with possible Solutrean origins for Clovis technology and you get a very different picture for the peopling of the Americas.

(edit to fix typo)

[YDogg]

1. oh shit. i thought you meant they found mccain has a spine!

[Ian David]

5. Damn! Someone beat me to a McCain is old joke. n/t

[lapfog_1]

2. Well, that can't be right... the earth is only about 6000 years old

according to a candidate for the second highest office in the land.

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. God put that fake skeleton there to test your faith. nt

[Ian David]

8. Don't be silly. God wasn't in Mexico, or else all the Mexicans would have already been Christian.

And then who would Columbus have given smallpox to?

[hvn_nbr_2]

12. Isn't it interesting how ethnocentric God is? nt

[emmadoggy]

11. That was my first thought too...

Hmmm, how does that work?

[rayofreason]

15. Hey, guess who else...

...rejects evolution.

http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2008/09/01/rfa-milewski.html

After all, said Zahar, a donkey can eat shrubbery and survive, but a human cannot.

"So, a donkey is more evolved than a human? No," scoffs Zahar, seemingly satisfied that he has demonstrated the absurdity of Charles Darwin's theory.

Lot of asses running around.

[MichaelHarris]

3. IMPOSSIBLE!

Sarah Palin and the RNC say it can't be more than 6000 y/o

[melody]

6. As an anthropology person, I find this fascinating - thanks

As a professional smartass, I found myself grappling toward a McCain joke but Ydogg got there first. lol

[Ian David]

7. They'd better hide it before someone from The Skull & Bones Society has sex with it. n/t

[Ian David]

9. Oldest skeleton in Americas discovered 2b 1,000 years older than Palin thinks The Universe is. n/t

[shraby]

10. Super fantastic! I love the subject.

[puerco-bellies]

13. No Solturean only resembles Clovis, and is from Europe.

The shape of the skull does not resemble European features, but rather Southern Asian. Most theories suggest population movement from Asia to the America's. This find is still in line with the widely accepted "peopling of the America's".

[rayofreason]

14. Solutrean-Clovis link

The proposition is that Solutrean seal hunters made their way to North American, and that Clovis is a descendant.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solutrean_hypothesis

A South Asian find in ancient America, as well as the Solutrean hypothesis are at odds with a Siberian origin for all Paleoindians. And not to mention the possibility of Australian aboriginal migration as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Siberian_American_Aborigines

The settlement of the new world may have been much more complicated than assumed by the Beringia hypothesis. "Clovis first" is clearly out the window because of Monte Verde. What else might change?