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La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [ 2 ] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [ 3 ]
The Zlatý kůň woman is the fossil of an ancient woman, an Early European modern human, dated to around 43,000 years ago. She was discovered in the Koněprusy Caves in the Czech Republic in 1950.
Peñon Woman III was found on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. [2] The skeleton's age has been estimated by radiocarbon dating by Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University. [3] Her 14 C date is 10,755±55 years [2] (12,705 cal years) BP. She is one of the oldest human remains found in the Americas. [4] [5] [6]
Luzia Woman (Portuguese pronunciation:) is the name for an Upper Paleolithic period skeleton of a Paleo-Indian woman who was found in a cave in Brazil.The 11,500-year-old skeleton was found in a cave in the Lapa Vermelha archeological site in Pedro Leopoldo, in the Greater Belo Horizonte region of Brazil, in 1974 by archaeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire.
Woman of Naharon - steps forensic facial reconstruction by Cícero Moraes, 2018 [1]. Eve of Naharon (Spanish: Eva de Naharon) is the skeleton of a 20– to 25-year-old human female found in the Naharon section of the underwater cave Sistema Naranjal in Mexico [2] near the town of Tulum, around 80 miles (130 km) south west of Cancún. [3]
Carl Linnaeus coined the name Homo sapiens. All modern humans are classified into the species Homo sapiens, coined by Carl Linnaeus in his 1735 work Systema Naturae. [4] The generic name Homo is a learned 18th-century derivation from Latin homō, which refers to humans of either sex.
The remains of the Buhl Woman were uncovered in 1989, when workers at a gravel quarry in Buhl, Idaho noticed a femur in a rock crusher.They then notified Herrett Center for Arts and Science, who along with the workers uncovered and collected more bones, which were eroding from the base of an approximately 5 meters (16 ft) high exposure of sediment.
Haraldskær Woman on display in a glass-covered sarcophagus in Vejle, Denmark. The Haraldskær Woman (or Haraldskjaer Woman) is the name given to a bog body of a woman preserved in a bog in Jutland, Denmark, and dating from about 490 BC (pre-Roman Iron Age). [1] [2] Workers found the body in 1835 while excavating peat on the