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The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
Lomekwi is an archaeological site located on the west bank of Turkana Lake in Kenya.It is an important milestone in the history of human archaeology. An archaeological team from Stony Brook University in the United States discovered traces of Lomekwi by chance in July 2011, and made substantial progress four years after in-depth excavations.
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]
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.
The oldest gun found in the continental U.S. makes for a great headline, and Seymour has been besieged by media since the paper was published. The superlative attached to the cannon is of course ...
The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the floor of the second church of ...
The Anzick Site (registered as 24PA506) at about the elevation of the bottom of the hillside below the arrow, is the only known Clovis burial site in North America In 1961, while hunting marmots at a sandstone outcrop on the Anzick family property, about one mile south of Wilsall , Montana, Bill Roy Bray found a stone projectile point and bones ...
Human remains at the site are the oldest that have been found in Washington, and at the time were the oldest set of remains found in North America. [21] Later radiocarbon work has confirmed the original dating of this site, indicating that these human remains, albeit very fragmentary, are still some of the oldest ever excavated in the New World ...