7,000-year-old Maya remains found in Mexico

[Judi Lynn]

Archaeologists find skeletons belonging to a civilisation once dominant but which mysteriously abandoned its cities around 900AD.


By Sharon Marris, news reporter

The remains of an ancient civilisation have been discovered by archaeologists in Mexico.

The bones are thought to be up to 7,000 years old, placing them at around the time when humans shifted from being hunters to a more sedentary lifestyle, the experts say.

The three Maya skeletons were found in the Puyil cave, which is in the Tacotalpa municipality of Tabasco state, located in southern Mexico.

One set is up to 7,000 years old, while the other two are thought to date back around 4,000 years.

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[bluedigger]

1. There were no Maya 7000 years ago.

The two more recent sets of remains might be Maya, though. Interesting discovery, none the less.

[Nitram]

2. I had the same thought, but the article says "For the Maya, it was a cave of ancestors."

"This cave was used by the Maya, they respected the remains that were already there and left their own remains inside."