The "stolen girl" skeleton has mysteriously disappeared from the Chan Hol cave, in Quintana Roo, Tulum.
Wednesday of 9th of May 2012
Last March, the skeleton that was announced to have disappeared from the cave Chan Hol, was not originally stated if it's the "Man of the Temple" or "Young from Hol Chan I", rather, it was another different remnant which was labeled as "Chan HolI I" and now called the "The girl stolen from Chan Hol".
The skeleton is in fact the best preserved remains of the seven similar found in the underground cave systems which was flooded during the Ice Age over 10 thousand years ago and by which its gender was confirmed through the subtracted hip bone; but prior to that they were dry for more than thousands of years and were actually a shelter and site for water collection serving the first populations of Americans from Southeast Asia.
The mentioned "stolen girl from the cave Chan Hol", was recorded as the eighth prehistoric human skeleton discovered in Tulum. The trace data from the very last stage of the Ice Age, identified as Upper Pleistocene, is by far the most serious evidence that the first settlements in this region and also the rest of America, not only came walking over the Bering Strait", Jeronimo Aviles Olguin, co-author of the "Study of the pre ceramic human groups from the east coast of Quintana Roo", says. The study was supported by experts including speleologist Eugenio Acevez, biologist Arturo Gonzalez, physical anthropologists Alejandro Terrazas and Martha Benavente together with INAH.
The value of this skeleton is that, in contrast to the old ones, it is the best preserved given that the bones were covered with a mineral deposit making them more resilient. "The entire bone was covered with speleothem, which is actually a mineral deposit making it much stronger, in comparison to Chan Hol I which was significantly crumbling", according to the statement of Aviles Olguin.
According to the project coordinator, Arturo Gonzalez, Chan Hol II is a very important puzzle piece to the understanding of the American settlement and of changes in ecosystem and natural disasters particularly global warming.
The Partial Finding Of The Human Remains
Chan Hol II was last seen March the 16th and it was on the 23rd that its absence was confirmed, Avil's Olguin recounts. The day after, archaeologist Carmen Rojas revealed that the skeleton is missing in the social media networks. "The skeleton's existence was documented via a photographic record; it follows that, the moment they returned to compare, they reported that 80% of the skeleton was missing or stolen",he states.
The partial recovery of the ancient human remains was not released much for some reason even if the news went around the world.
Saving The Ancient Remains
It was under Jerome's Aviles Olguin charge along with other professionals that the ancient skeleton remains were salvaged, who made a dive in two in April and have obtained some parts of the ancient skeleton. Aviles Olguin specifies that they have rescued a vertebrae, rib fragments, molar, two incisors, jaw, hand and feet bones and confirms that they are from a skeleton which is very old.
Thereafter, the material was sent to the UNAM's Institute of Anthropological Research for study. Perhaps the robber was scared, the hip was not stolen and was the true secret to figure out that the the gender of the skeleton is not of a man, on the other hand of a young and prestigious woman, as reported by the anthropologists Benavante and Terrazas's observations. Moreover, they uncovered remains of one of the arms, however what are missing are the cranium and with the rest of the skeletal parts.
INAH distributed, signs reading "wanted pre-mayan skeleton disappeared from the Chan Hol Cave", after the theft incident, most particularly among the divers of Tulum. The distributed signs made it clear that the stolen remains from Tulum are 14500 of age, the eighth pre-mayan remains they have and are considered as America's oldest skeleton, perhaps dating prior to those of the "Woman from Naharon".
Wednesday of 9th of May 2012
Last March, the skeleton that was announced to have disappeared from the cave Chan Hol, was not originally stated if it's the "Man of the Temple" or "Young from Hol Chan I", rather, it was another different remnant which was labeled as "Chan HolI I" and now called the "The girl stolen from Chan Hol".
The skeleton is in fact the best preserved remains of the seven similar found in the underground cave systems which was flooded during the Ice Age over 10 thousand years ago and by which its gender was confirmed through the subtracted hip bone; but prior to that they were dry for more than thousands of years and were actually a shelter and site for water collection serving the first populations of Americans from Southeast Asia.
The mentioned "stolen girl from the cave Chan Hol", was recorded as the eighth prehistoric human skeleton discovered in Tulum. The trace data from the very last stage of the Ice Age, identified as Upper Pleistocene, is by far the most serious evidence that the first settlements in this region and also the rest of America, not only came walking over the Bering Strait", Jeronimo Aviles Olguin, co-author of the "Study of the pre ceramic human groups from the east coast of Quintana Roo", says. The study was supported by experts including speleologist Eugenio Acevez, biologist Arturo Gonzalez, physical anthropologists Alejandro Terrazas and Martha Benavente together with INAH.
The value of this skeleton is that, in contrast to the old ones, it is the best preserved given that the bones were covered with a mineral deposit making them more resilient. "The entire bone was covered with speleothem, which is actually a mineral deposit making it much stronger, in comparison to Chan Hol I which was significantly crumbling", according to the statement of Aviles Olguin.
According to the project coordinator, Arturo Gonzalez, Chan Hol II is a very important puzzle piece to the understanding of the American settlement and of changes in ecosystem and natural disasters particularly global warming.
The Partial Finding Of The Human Remains
Chan Hol II was last seen March the 16th and it was on the 23rd that its absence was confirmed, Avil's Olguin recounts. The day after, archaeologist Carmen Rojas revealed that the skeleton is missing in the social media networks. "The skeleton's existence was documented via a photographic record; it follows that, the moment they returned to compare, they reported that 80% of the skeleton was missing or stolen",he states.
The partial recovery of the ancient human remains was not released much for some reason even if the news went around the world.
Saving The Ancient Remains
It was under Jerome's Aviles Olguin charge along with other professionals that the ancient skeleton remains were salvaged, who made a dive in two in April and have obtained some parts of the ancient skeleton. Aviles Olguin specifies that they have rescued a vertebrae, rib fragments, molar, two incisors, jaw, hand and feet bones and confirms that they are from a skeleton which is very old.
Thereafter, the material was sent to the UNAM's Institute of Anthropological Research for study. Perhaps the robber was scared, the hip was not stolen and was the true secret to figure out that the the gender of the skeleton is not of a man, on the other hand of a young and prestigious woman, as reported by the anthropologists Benavante and Terrazas's observations. Moreover, they uncovered remains of one of the arms, however what are missing are the cranium and with the rest of the skeletal parts.
INAH distributed, signs reading "wanted pre-mayan skeleton disappeared from the Chan Hol Cave", after the theft incident, most particularly among the divers of Tulum. The distributed signs made it clear that the stolen remains from Tulum are 14500 of age, the eighth pre-mayan remains they have and are considered as America's oldest skeleton, perhaps dating prior to those of the "Woman from Naharon".
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