A Skeleton Clue to Early American Ancestry (2 of 13) (IMAGE)

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A Skeleton Clue to Early American Ancestry (2 of 13)

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Diver Susan Bird working at the bottom of Hoyo Negro, a large dome-shaped underwater cave on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. She carefully brushes the human skull found at the site while her team members take detailed photographs. This image relates to a paper that appeared in the May 16, 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by James C. Chatters at Applied Paleoscience and DirectAMS in Bothell, Wash., and colleagues was titled, "Late Pleistocene Human Skeleton and mtDNA Link Paleoamericans and Modern Native-Americans."

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[Image courtesy of Paul Nicklen/National Geographic]

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