Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

12,000-year-old skull found in Mexico possibly oldest in Americas

A 12,000-year-old female skull found in the Mexican Caribbean could be the oldest human remains ever unearthed in the Americas, Mexico's top public university announced Thursday. The skull was excavated inside an underground cave along the coast of Tulum, in Mexico's eastern state of Quintana Roo, and could date back to between 10,000 and 12,000 years ago, according to Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM).

The reconstruction of the skull to determine the sex, age and other characteristics was done by the Paris-based Atelier Daynes, which specializes in reconstructing hominids from bone . . .

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