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The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene
Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding (14)C dating. Here we use U-series techniques for dating a stalagmite overgrowing the pelvis of a human skeleton discovered in the submerged Ch...
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28854194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183345 |
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| author | Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Becker, Julia Hering, Fabio Frey, Eberhard González, Arturo González Fohlmeister, Jens Stinnesbeck, Sarah Frank, Norbert Terrazas Mata, Alejandro Benavente, Martha Elena Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo Aceves Núñez, Eugenio Zell, Patrick Deininger, Michael |
| author_facet | Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Becker, Julia Hering, Fabio Frey, Eberhard González, Arturo González Fohlmeister, Jens Stinnesbeck, Sarah Frank, Norbert Terrazas Mata, Alejandro Benavente, Martha Elena Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo Aceves Núñez, Eugenio Zell, Patrick Deininger, Michael |
| author_sort | Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang |
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| description | Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding (14)C dating. Here we use U-series techniques for dating a stalagmite overgrowing the pelvis of a human skeleton discovered in the submerged Chan Hol cave. The oldest closed system U/Th age comes from around 21 mm above the pelvis defining the terminus ante quem for the pelvis to 11311±370 y BP. However, the skeleton might be considerable older, probably as old as 13 ky BP as indicated by the speleothem stable isotope data. The Chan Hol individual confirms a late Pleistocene settling of Mesoamerica and represents one of the oldest human osteological remains in America. |
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| spelling | pubmed-55766492017-09-15 The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Becker, Julia Hering, Fabio Frey, Eberhard González, Arturo González Fohlmeister, Jens Stinnesbeck, Sarah Frank, Norbert Terrazas Mata, Alejandro Benavente, Martha Elena Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo Aceves Núñez, Eugenio Zell, Patrick Deininger, Michael PLoS One Research Article Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding (14)C dating. Here we use U-series techniques for dating a stalagmite overgrowing the pelvis of a human skeleton discovered in the submerged Chan Hol cave. The oldest closed system U/Th age comes from around 21 mm above the pelvis defining the terminus ante quem for the pelvis to 11311±370 y BP. However, the skeleton might be considerable older, probably as old as 13 ky BP as indicated by the speleothem stable isotope data. The Chan Hol individual confirms a late Pleistocene settling of Mesoamerica and represents one of the oldest human osteological remains in America. Public Library of Science 2017-08-30 /pmc/articles/PMC5576649/ /pubmed/28854194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183345 Text en © 2017 Stinnesbeck et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| spellingShingle | Research Article Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang Becker, Julia Hering, Fabio Frey, Eberhard González, Arturo González Fohlmeister, Jens Stinnesbeck, Sarah Frank, Norbert Terrazas Mata, Alejandro Benavente, Martha Elena Avilés Olguín, Jerónimo Aceves Núñez, Eugenio Zell, Patrick Deininger, Michael The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title | The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title_full | The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title_fullStr | The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title_full_unstemmed | The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title_short | The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene |
| title_sort | earliest settlers of mesoamerica date back to the late pleistocene |
| topic | Research Article |
| url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576649/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28854194 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183345 |
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