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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.
A small rock shelter on Grimes Point was discovered in 1939 by guano-miners; Georgia Wheeler recorded the site as 1-1C (Cave no. 16) and named it Grimes Burial Shelter. The location is to the east of Fallon, Nevada, and just to the south of the Spirit Cave, where the Spirit Cave mummy was recovered. [3]
Human fossils found in America dated to before 9,000 years ago. Subcategories. ... Spirit Cave mummy; T. Tepexpan man; Tlapacoya (archeological site) Trail Creek Caves;
The Spirit Cave mummies of Fallon, Nevada, in North America were accurately dated at more than 9,400 years old. Before this discovery, the oldest known deliberate mummy was a child, one of the Chinchorro mummies found in the Camarones Valley, Chile, which dates around 5050 BC. [ 3 ]
Archeologists have found a pre-Hispanic mummy surrounded by coca leaves on top of a hill in Peru’s capital next to the practice field of a professional soccer club. A team from The Associated ...
The researchers found that the mummy was still in a good condition even 3,500 years after its burial. Using advanced techniques like scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared ...
Spirit Cave may refer to these archaeological sites: Spirit Cave, a cave in Nevada, U.S., known for the discovery of the Spirit Cave mummy Spirit Cave (Thailand) , a cave in Mae Hong Son Province, Thailand, occupied by hunter-foragers of the Hoabinhian culture
Officials in Idaho on Tuesday announced that human remains found in a cave from a decades-old cold case have been identified. The dismembered and headless John Doe, whose remains were found in the ...