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Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name [a] given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun. [1]
The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (c. 3.3 million – c. 11,700 years ago) (/ ˌ p eɪ l i oʊ ˈ l ɪ θ ɪ k, ˌ p æ l i-/ PAY-lee-oh-LITH-ik, PAL-ee-), also called the Old Stone Age (from Ancient Greek παλαιός (palaiós) 'old' and λίθος (líthos) 'stone'), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone tools, and which represents almost ...
Jacques Jaubert (born 1957) French; lower and middle Paleolithic, lithic technology; Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826) U.S. President; Virginia prehistory; Arthur J. Jelinek (1928–2022) American; Eurasian Paleolithic; Jesse D. Jennings (1909–1997) American; New World; Llewellyn Jewitt (1816–1886) English; British antiquities
The skull's owner had been wounded over his left eye and the wound had partially healed before death. The most severe damage to the skull, however, was caused during its time in storage and "mishandling" after its 1950 discovery. A lost bone is documented on pictures from 1968 and 1998. [2]
A shell trumpet made of the conch species Charonia lampas dating back 10,000 to 17,000 years ago to the Magdalenian stage of the Upper Paleolithic. The specimen is 31 × 18 × 18 cm in size and cataloged by the Muséum of Toulouse as MHNT.PRE.2010.0.1.2.
Tyka Nelson, a Minneapolis-based singer and Prince’s only full sibling, died Monday morning, a rep for Prince’s estate confirms to Variety. No cause of death was reported; she was 64. Nelson ...
Luzia Woman (Portuguese pronunciation:) is the name for an Upper Paleolithic period skeleton of a Paleo-Indian woman who was found in a cave in Brazil.The 11,500-year-old skeleton was found in a cave in the Lapa Vermelha archeological site in Pedro Leopoldo, in the Greater Belo Horizonte region of Brazil, in 1974 by archaeologist Annette Laming-Emperaire.
Diane Delano, an actor best known for her work in the Emmy-winning series "Northern Exposure" and the feature film "The Wicker Man," has died at age 67.. Delano died Friday evening at her home in ...