The 8,500-Year-Old Skeletons Found In A Texas Cave — And The Ancient DNA Mystery Hidden Inside
The working headline of this article promised 8,500-year-old skeletons in a Texas cave.
The article has delivered something both more and less than that simple promise.
More, because the sites — Bering Sinkhole and Buckeye Knoll — turn out to be not single dramatic discoveries but windows into an entire world: thousands of years of human life on the Edwards Plateau and the Gulf Coastal Plain, documented through the patient work of archaeologists, physical anthropologists, and isotope chemists.
The 8,500-year-old individuals are real, their ages confirmed by multiple radiocarbon dates, their lives partially reconstructed through careful scientific analysis.
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