Skeleton in "black hole" sheds light on early Americans

A skeleton discovered in a watery grave called Hoyo Negro – or black hole - has shed light on the origins of the original people of the Americas. The skeleton of a teenage girl, found in a cave in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, is between 12,000 and 13,000 years old and the most intact human remains of that era. Dubbed Naia, in refrence to Greek water nymphs, she lay submerged more than 150 feet below the water, until cave divers came upon her. “It’s difficult to say...

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