Histomorphology and Metabolic History of a Submerged Pleistocene Skeleton from the Cenote of Hoyo Negro, Tulum, Quintana Roo, Mexico

Summary

This paper explores the histological preservation, metabolic history and living conditions in rib sections of a submerged female youngster, macroscopically determined to have died during her mid teens. This partially preserved skeleton counts among the most ancient individuals securely dated in the Americas. For the purposes of the study, we studied an undecalcified mid-shaft section of the twelfth rib and quantified osteo density (OPD), formation processeds, cortical and total bone area and histological growth arrest, seriating analogous rib sections of a female control cohort from the Yucatecan peninsula. This study was financed by Subdirección de Arqueología Subacuática of the Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, and conducted at the Universidad Autónoma de Yucatán, Mérida, financed by CONACYT Project no. 152105 (2012-2015).

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This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 80th Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA (2015)   •
• The Hoyo Negro Project: Recent Investigations of a Submerged Paleoamerican Cave Site in Quintana Roo, Mexico

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