The discovered skeleton, named as "The stolen girl" from the Chan Hol cave, in the area of Tulum, Quintana Roo disappeared.
Wednesday of 9th of May 2012
The missing skeleton which disappeared from Chan Hol cave last march was not originally mentioned as the "Young from Hol Chan I" or "Man of the Temple", but it was a different remnant named as "Chan Hol II" and now dubbed as "The girl stolen from Chan Hol".
The skeleton is in fact the best preserved remains of the seven similar found in the underground cave systems which was flooded during the Ice Age over 10 thousand years ago and by which its gender was confirmed through the subtracted hip bone; but prior to that they were dry for more than thousands of years and were actually a shelter and site for water collection serving the first populations of Americans from Southeast Asia.
"The stolen girl from Chan Hol" was deemed to be the eighth prehistoric human skeleton discovered in Tulum. The footprint data from the very last stage of the Ice Age, referred to as Upper Pleistocene, is in fact the most significant evidence that the first settlements in this area and also the rest of America, not just came walking over the Bering Strait", Jeronimo Aviles Olguin, co-author of the "Study of the pre ceramic human groups from the east coast of Quintana Roo",says. INAH supported the study which also involved many other professionals, such as speleologist Eugenio Acevez, biologist Arturo Gonzalez, physical anthropologists Alejandro Terrazas and Martha Benavente.
The significance of this skeleton is the fact that, when compared with past ones is the very best preserved one, considering that the bones were engrossed in a mineral deposit making them more resilient. "The entire bone was coated with speleothem, which happens to be a mineral deposit which makes it stronger, compared to the Chan Hol I which was apparently crumbling", according to Aviles Olguin.
Chan Hol II, according to project coordinator, Arturo Gonzalez, is a key to the findings and for understanding the America settlement, as well as to find out and understand the environmental changes, global warming and other natural disasters.
The Partial Finding Of The Human Remains
Chan Hol II was last seen March the 16th and it was on the 23rd that its absence was confirmed, Avil's Olguin recounts. The day after, archaeologist Carmen Rojas revealed that the skeleton is missing in the social media networks. "The skeleton's existence was documented via a photographic record; it follows that, the moment they returned to compare, they reported that 80% of the skeleton was missing or stolen",he states.
Though the news spread around the world very quickly yet the partial recovery of the ancient human remains was barely released for some reason.
Saving The Ancient Remains
The restoration of the archaeological skeleton was under Jerome's Aviles Olguin charge and several other professionals, who in two dives made in April, managed to acquire some ancient skeleton parts. Aviles Olguin specifies that what they have discovered and rescued were vertebrae, rib fragments, jaw, molar and two incisors, hand and feet bones, which confirm that they're from a very old skeleton.
Thereafter, the material was sent to the UNAM's Institute of Anthropological Research for study. Perhaps the robber was scared, the hip was not stolen and was the true secret to figure out that the the gender of the skeleton is not of a man, on the other hand of a young and prestigious woman, as reported by the anthropologists Benavante and Terrazas's observations. Moreover, they uncovered remains of one of the arms, however what are missing are the cranium and with the rest of the skeletal parts.
After the robbery incident, INAH dispersed signs reading, "wanted pre-mayan skeleton disappeared from Chan Hol Cave", mainly to the divers of Tulum. The ads dispersed indicated that they're 14500 years old ancient skeleton remains from Tulum, the Eighth pre-mayan remains they have which are believed to date before the 'Woman from Naharon", and considered to be the oldest skeleton of America.
Wednesday of 9th of May 2012
The missing skeleton which disappeared from Chan Hol cave last march was not originally mentioned as the "Young from Hol Chan I" or "Man of the Temple", but it was a different remnant named as "Chan Hol II" and now dubbed as "The girl stolen from Chan Hol".
The skeleton is in fact the best preserved remains of the seven similar found in the underground cave systems which was flooded during the Ice Age over 10 thousand years ago and by which its gender was confirmed through the subtracted hip bone; but prior to that they were dry for more than thousands of years and were actually a shelter and site for water collection serving the first populations of Americans from Southeast Asia.
"The stolen girl from Chan Hol" was deemed to be the eighth prehistoric human skeleton discovered in Tulum. The footprint data from the very last stage of the Ice Age, referred to as Upper Pleistocene, is in fact the most significant evidence that the first settlements in this area and also the rest of America, not just came walking over the Bering Strait", Jeronimo Aviles Olguin, co-author of the "Study of the pre ceramic human groups from the east coast of Quintana Roo",says. INAH supported the study which also involved many other professionals, such as speleologist Eugenio Acevez, biologist Arturo Gonzalez, physical anthropologists Alejandro Terrazas and Martha Benavente.
The significance of this skeleton is the fact that, when compared with past ones is the very best preserved one, considering that the bones were engrossed in a mineral deposit making them more resilient. "The entire bone was coated with speleothem, which happens to be a mineral deposit which makes it stronger, compared to the Chan Hol I which was apparently crumbling", according to Aviles Olguin.
Chan Hol II, according to project coordinator, Arturo Gonzalez, is a key to the findings and for understanding the America settlement, as well as to find out and understand the environmental changes, global warming and other natural disasters.
The Partial Finding Of The Human Remains
Chan Hol II was last seen March the 16th and it was on the 23rd that its absence was confirmed, Avil's Olguin recounts. The day after, archaeologist Carmen Rojas revealed that the skeleton is missing in the social media networks. "The skeleton's existence was documented via a photographic record; it follows that, the moment they returned to compare, they reported that 80% of the skeleton was missing or stolen",he states.
Though the news spread around the world very quickly yet the partial recovery of the ancient human remains was barely released for some reason.
Saving The Ancient Remains
The restoration of the archaeological skeleton was under Jerome's Aviles Olguin charge and several other professionals, who in two dives made in April, managed to acquire some ancient skeleton parts. Aviles Olguin specifies that what they have discovered and rescued were vertebrae, rib fragments, jaw, molar and two incisors, hand and feet bones, which confirm that they're from a very old skeleton.
Thereafter, the material was sent to the UNAM's Institute of Anthropological Research for study. Perhaps the robber was scared, the hip was not stolen and was the true secret to figure out that the the gender of the skeleton is not of a man, on the other hand of a young and prestigious woman, as reported by the anthropologists Benavante and Terrazas's observations. Moreover, they uncovered remains of one of the arms, however what are missing are the cranium and with the rest of the skeletal parts.
After the robbery incident, INAH dispersed signs reading, "wanted pre-mayan skeleton disappeared from Chan Hol Cave", mainly to the divers of Tulum. The ads dispersed indicated that they're 14500 years old ancient skeleton remains from Tulum, the Eighth pre-mayan remains they have which are believed to date before the 'Woman from Naharon", and considered to be the oldest skeleton of America.
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