Underwater Ice Age Cave with Animal Bones and Remains of Girl Who Could Reveal How Mankind First Came to America

The underwater 'black hole of death' revealed: Ice Age Mexican cave found filled with animal bones and the remains of a fifteen year old girl who could reveal how mankind first came to America

• Divers investigating pit dubbed Hoyo Negro (Black Hole) recovered the bones
  
• The remains include bones from giant ground sloth and short-faced bears
  
• Also found mountain lions, sabertooth cats, and elephant-relative gomphothere
  
• Human remains of a 15-16 year old girl named Naia discovered are the most complete early human in America 
  

By Cheyenne Macdonald For Dailymail.com

Published: 15:46 EDT, 25 August 2017 | Updated: 16:02 EDT, 25 August 2017





Thousands of years ago, the now-flooded caves deep beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula served as passageways for the humans and animals of the last Ice Age.
But, for many unfortunate creatures, the journey across the horizontal passage ended in untimely death at the bottom of an inescapable pit.

Divers investigating the notorious pit dubbed ‘Hoyo Negro’ (or, Black Hole) have recovered a trove of bones dating back roughly 13,000 years, revealing the remains of several Pleistocene species – and even the remains of Naia, a 15 year old girl who is the most complete early human ever found in America.

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Thousands of years ago, the now-flooded caves deep beneath Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula served as passageways for the humans and animals of the last Ice Age. But, for many unfortunate creatures, the journey ended in untimely death at the bottom of an inescapable pit.

Among the bones recovered so far were three different types of giant ground sloth, one of which is now said to be an entirely new species.

They also found the remains of short-faced bears, mountain lions, sabertooth cats, the elephant-relative gomphothere, and tapirs.

And, alongside the Pleistocene megafauna, the divers discovered the ‘most complete early human skeleton,’ found yet in the Americas.

The team, who is set to present the findings at this years’ at the annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology in Calgary, Alberta (Canada) on Saturday, says the remarkable discovery offers new insight on life at the end of the last Ice Age.



















    



‘This represents the oldest and most complete early human skeleton in the Americas, and she co-existed with a variety of megafauna,’ Schubert said. The skull of the human, dubbed Naia, can be seen at the site above


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Black Hole?! That's racist!!! I hope Anti-fa is heading to Mexico right now to protest all of the white supremacists living down there!

Seriously though, that is a very neat find! I hope they can really learn something from it and publish it where we can follow it. Thanks for posting!