JAKARTA – Archaeologist named Octavio Del Rio, he found an 8,000-year-old prehistoric human skeleton on the Caribbean coast of Mexico. It is thought to be a human skeleton that lived at the end of the Ice Age.
Quoted by Metro on Tuesday (9/20/2022), when the skeleton was found, it was lying in a cave that had been submerged by seawater. It was in poor condition, destroyed with most of the pieces covered in sediment.
The cave where the skeleton was found is expected to be stored by the Mexican government to build a line of high-speed tourist trains. Fortunately, before the plan was made, the skeleton was found for the first time.
Previously, Del Rio had admitted that he was confused as to why the skeleton could enter the cave that had been flooded by seawater. However, he and his team discovered that it was not a modern human skeleton, but a human in the ice age.
“We do not know if the body was stored there or that is where the person died, considering that the distance from the cave entrance is about 8 meters underwater. Later it was discovered that it is a cave from the era. ice that was submerged by water, “Del Rio said.
Del Rio is currently working to persuade the Mexican government to move the planned construction of the railway line to another line, considering that the place is where precious remains of ancient civilizations are found.
He hopes the railway line will be moved to a highway or other place whose ecosystem has already been damaged so that remnants of other prehistoric times can be found and saved from the progress of time.
“What we want is that they change the path in this place, due to the archaeological finds that have been made there and their importance,” Del Rio said, addressing the Mexican government.
“They had to take the train from there and put it where they said they would build it before, on the highway in the area that was hit, destroyed,” he continued.
Of note, the findings from this skeleton are not the first to be found in North America. There are some of the oldest human remains that have been found in the sinkhole caves known as cenotes on the country’s Caribbean coast.
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