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On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Gill Edigar <gi...@att.net> wrote: > At the height of the last Ice Age the Berring Strait was a piece of > land over 1000 miles wide. Sea level was over 300 feet lower than it > is now. It is speculated that most of the human beings that migrated > along that route didn't walk, they came by boats, hopping from cove to > cove along the coast. Most of their villages (and tombs and artifacts) > have not been located because they are under more than a hundred feet > of water now. A few rare burials from that period have been found in > caves (all the way down into South America) which were high enough to > be above (or in the case of this reported Mexico find, just below) > present day sea level. They push the date of early settlement of the > Americas a good bit farther back in time, well into the Ice Age, than > the terrestrial finds farther inland--as would be expected. > > If we had some sort of submersible habitat, say a gutted ship hull > that could be inverted and sunk over these inundated archeological > sites then filled with pressurized air like a caisson so diggers could > live down there for a month or so at a time whilst excavating those > sites in the relatively dryness of the habitat it would be a boon to > our knowledge of these early coastal people who first settled in the > Americas perhaps 30,000 years ago. > --Ediger > > On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 2:58 AM, <jerryat...@aol.com> wrote: > > Ancient Human Skeleton Removed From Mexican Cave > > > > MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The remains of a prehistoric child were removed > from > > an underwater cave in Mexico four years after divers stumbled upon the > > well-preserved corpse that offers clues to ancient human migration. > > > > The skeletal remains of the boy, dubbed the Young Hol Chan, are more than > > 10,000 years old and are among the oldest human bones found in the > Americas. > > > > The corpse was discovered in 2006 by a pair of German cave divers who > were > > exploring unique flooded sandstone sinkholes, known as cenotes, common to > > the eastern Mexican state of Quintana Roo. > > > > Scientists spent three years studying the remains where they lay before > > deciding it was safe to bring the skeleton to the surface for further > study, > > according to the Mexican National Institute for Anthropology and History. > > > > The institute is coordinating a study of early human migration to eastern > > Mexico that aims to deepen understanding of the movement of people across > > the Bering Strait at the end of the last Ice Age. > > > > The Young Hol Chan, named after the cenote where he was discovered, was > > found in a darkened cave 27 feet beneath the surface. > > > > (Reporting by Patrick Rucker; editing by Todd Eastham) > > > > http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=11473831 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Visit our website: http://texascavers.com > To unsubscribe, e-mail: texascavers-unsubscr...@texascavers.com > For additional commands, e-mail: texascavers-h...@texascavers.com > >
