Genetic Study Says Skeletons Probably Linked with First Settlers of the Continent artdaily.org
go to original August 7, 2013

Archaeologists working in "La Sepultura" cave in Tamaulipas state, Mexico. About 30 human skeletons found in the cave - which can date from the second millennium before our era - could be linked with the first settlers of the American continent, according to a genetic study carried out by experts from the National Institute of Anthropology and History (AFP/INAH)

MEXICO CITY - Nearly 30 human skeletons, dated back to the second millennia before our era, which were found in the La Sepultura cave, in the state of Tamaulipas, could be related with the first settlers of the American continent, according to the genetic study headed by experts of the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH).

Based on the osteometric studies, ancient DNA and radiocarbon tests, applied to the osseous remains recovered at the municipality of Tula in the Eastern Sierra Madre, archaeologists can “demonstrate that in this area they have found evidence of one of the most ancient genetic lineages in America”. These remains are therefore associated with the men that crossed the Bering Strait 12 or 10 million years before.

The radiocarbon dating of the osseous remains (teeth) and a fragment of a grass mat found in the same cave, place them among the years 1397 through 1195 BC and 1313 and 914 BC.

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