The 12,000-Year-Old Girl Found Deep Inside A Flooded Cave — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
That morphological data was, initially, one of the most interesting things about her — and one of the most puzzling.
The physical features of Naia’s skull did not look like those of the people who have lived on the Yucatán Peninsula in the historical and recent past.
They did not look like the skulls of the people who built the great Mayan cities, who established the complex trading networks of Mesoamerica, who have been the Indigenous peoples of this region for the past several thousand years.
Her skull showed different proportions, a different facial profile, a different overall shape.
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