Archaeologists find babies bones buried since last Ice Age (in Central Alaska)

[malaise]

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http://www.caribnewsdesk.com/news/8943-archaeologists-find-babies-bones-buried-since-last-ice-age
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A team of archaeologists have discovered the bones of two babies in Alaska who were buried around 11,500 years ago during the glaciation of the last Ice Age, local media reported Tuesday.

This makes them the youngest human remains ever traced to North America's earliest inhabitants.

The discovery took place in 2013 near the Tanana River in central Alaska but was published only recently in the science journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner.

In 2010, the archaeologists had found partially cremated remains of a 3-year-old in a large sand dune close to Fairbanks but it was not until three years later that they realized that there were more remains just 38 cm (15 inches) below that site in the same area.

It was there that they found the remains of a baby who died only a few weeks old after birth as well as a fetus who was probably still-born.

[brooklynite]

1. Not possible; I'm reliably informed that humans are only 6,000 years old...

...and rode dinosaurs.

[Scootaloo]

2. Yes, but if you go back to the original Aramaic, it's more like...

[brooklynite]

3. "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas"

--Miriam Ferguson, Governor of Texas

[malaise]

4. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

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