* Astronomy

Deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico, archaeologists may have discovered the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas.
Dubbed Eva de Naharon, or Eve of Naharon, the female skeleton has been dated at 13,600 years old. If that age is accurate, the skeletonalong with three others found in underwater caves along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatán Peninsulacould provide new clues to how the Americas were first populated.
The remains have been excavated over the past four years near the town of Tulum, about 80 miles southwest of Cancún, by a team of scientists led by Arturo González, director of the Desert Museum in Saltillo, Mexico.

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A local man has unearthed two ancient stone tools in an archaeological dig in Allendale County, S.C., a rare find that could provide more information about how early Americans lived.

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Its hard to imagine life in the Red Wing area before European settlers came and built their cities near the banks of the Mississippi River.
But hundreds of years ago, long before people began using words to record their stories, thousands of people lived in several prehistoric villages in what archaeologists now call the Red Wing Region.

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Human DNA from dried excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World - dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture - and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia, according to an international team of 13 scientists.
Among the researchers is Dennis L. Jenkins, a senior archaeologist with the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural and Cultural History, whose summer field expeditions over two summers uncovered a variety of artefacts in caves that had caught the scientific attention of the UO's Luther Cressman in the 1930s.
The Paisley Caves are located in the Summer Lake basin near Paisley, about 220 miles southeast of Eugene on the eastern side of the Cascade Range. The series of eight caves are westward-facing, wave-cut shelters on the highest shoreline of pluvial Lake Chewaucan, which rose and fell in periods of greater precipitation during the Pleistocene.
The team's extensively documented analyses on mitochondrial DNA - genetic material passed on maternally - removed from long-dried faeces, known as coprolites, were published online 3 April in Science Express ahead of regular publication in the journal Science.

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