A pre-historic human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age about 8,000 years ago, according to an archaeologist and cave diver on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
But Del Rio said Tuesday that institute archaeologist Carmen Rojas told him that the site was registered and would be investigated by the institute’s Quintana Roo state branch Holocene Archaeology Project.
Del Rio has been exploring the region for three decades, and in 2002, he participated in the discovery and cataloguing of remains known as The Woman of Naharon, who died around the same time, or perhaps earlier, than Naia — the nearly complete skeleton of a young woman who died around 13,000 years ago. It was discovered in a nearby cave system in 2007.
Caves along part of the coast already have been damaged by construction above them, with cement pilings used to support the weight above.
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