The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
This was a calibrated radiocarbon date, adjusted for the natural variations in atmospheric carbon-14 that complicate the direct conversion of raw radiocarbon measurements to calendar years.
Ten thousand six hundred years.
To put that in perspective: the individual buried in Spirit Cave had lived and died approximately 8,500 years before the birth of Christ.
He had died more than 4,000 years before the construction of Stonehenge.
He had been buried and preserved in a Nevada cave while people were still hunting mammoths and other large Ice Age mammals across other parts of the Americas.
The Wheelers had found one of the oldest human burials in North America.
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