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Cheddar Man is a human male skeleton found in Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, England.The skeletal remains date to around the mid-to-late 9th millennium BC, corresponding to the Mesolithic period, and it appears that he died a violent death.
The oldest human skeletal remains are the 40ky old Lake Mungo remains in New South Wales, but human ornaments discovered at Devil's Lair in Western Australia have been dated to 48 kya and artifacts at Madjedbebe in Northern Territory are dated to at least 50 kya, and to 62.1 ± 2.9 ka in one 2017 study. [26] [27] [28] [29]
Lucy Catalog no. AL 288-1 Common name Lucy Species Australopithecus afarensis Age 3.2 million years Place discovered Afar Depression, Ethiopia Date discovered November 24, 1974 ; 50 years ago (1974-11-24) Discovered by Donald Johanson Maurice Taieb Yves Coppens Tom Gray AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy or Dinkʼinesh, is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 ...
Human fossils found in America dated to before 9,000 years ago. ... Pages in category "Oldest human remains in the Americas" ... (skeleton) O. On Your Knees Cave; P.
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]
The remains were radiocarbon dated at the same time. This turned out to be another early Holocene skeleton dating to almost exactly the same era. Wizards Beach Man was found in 1978 at Wizards Beach [19] on Pyramid Lake, about 100 miles (160 km) to the northwest from Spirit Cave. [10]
The cranium was fully intact including all of its teeth from the time of death. [10] All major bones were found except the sternum and a few in the hands and feet. [11] After further study, Chatters concluded it was "a male of late middle age (40–55 years), and tall (170 to 176 cm, 5′7″ to 5′9″), and was fairly muscular with a slender build". [10]
Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name [a] given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. [1]