Big cave diving anthropology story in the news
Main article on the ancestry of Native Americans from a skeleton found by cave divers in Hoyo Negro in the Yucatan. Popular press articles in National Geographic:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...o-archaeology/
and Slate:
http://www.slate.com/articles/health...o_indians.html
"It was more than breathtaking, it was like having stumbled upon some alien cathedral on some other planet, which some otherworld race with their incomprehensible architecture and alien sculpture had ages past built, decorated, and dedicated to their unknowable God."
James Jones. His Capitol M Manhood. In Down Time: Great Writers on Diving, 2nd ed.
That would be so awesome to go cave diving and run across human remains.
Yes, as long as they aren't fresh!Originally Posted by TracyN
You can go to Vortex. I heard a rummor there might be some there. Just watch out around the memorial it might cause your dive gear to malfunction.
All kidding aside I really enjoy looking at the fossils in the less traveled caves. I know they found a little boys skeleton in Chan Hol (sp?). I wonder how the Dna was different between these two. Wasn't it about the same age?
LoL Eric! Yah that memorial sign at Vortex has bad juju! I love fossils as well. I believe it was Chan Hol where we ran across a human skull on Marissa's cave diving trip. Of course it was promptly removed once word got out
I work with a team that recovers extinct monkey fossils from the caribbean. I co-authored a paper describing a beautiful jaw found in the Dominican Republic. Some of these caves have so little oxygen that we're finding bones that are tens of thousands of years old, but look like they were de-fleshed last week (no oxygen, no decay)!
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Very cool stuff! Thanks!
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