Skull Could Give Clues to Early Mesoamericans
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
A 13,000-year-old skull found in Mexico may help revise some theories about the Western Hemisphere’s first inhabitants.
The skull, part of a collection at Mexico’s National Museum of Anthropology, is believed to be the oldest found in the Americas. The skull has cranial features common to the native peoples of Central and South America, as opposed to the features of North American Indians.
Analysis of the skull’s DNA could help determine the origin of Mesoamerica’s native people.
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