TY  - JOUR
A1  - Stinnesbeck, Wolfgang
A1  - Becker, Julia
A1  - Hering, Fabio
A1  - Frey, Eberhard
A1  - Gonzalez Gonzalez, Arturo
A1  - Fohlmeister, Jens Bernd
A1  - Stinnesbeck, Sarah
A1  - Frank, Norbert
A1  - Terrazas Mata, Alejandro
A1  - Elena Benavente, Martha
A1  - Aviles Olguin, Jeronimo
A1  - Aceves Nunez, Eugenio
A1  - Zell, Patrick
A1  - Deininger, Michael
T1  - The earliest settlers of Mesoamerica date back to the late Pleistocene
JF  - PLoS one
N2  - Preceramic human skeletal remains preserved in submerged caves near Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Mexico, reveal conflicting results regarding C-14 dating. Here we use U-series techniques for dating a stalagmite overgrowing the pelvis of a human skeleton discovered in the submerged Chan Hol cave. The oldest closed system U/Th age comes from around 21 mm above the pelvis defining the terminus ante quem for the pelvis to 11311 +/- 370 y BP. However, the skeleton might be considerable older, probably as old as 13 ky BP as indicated by the speleothem stable isotope data. The Chan Hol individual confirms a late Pleistocene settling of Mesoamerica and represents one of the oldest human osteological remains in America.
Y1  - 2017
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0183345
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 12
PB  - PLoS
CY  - San Fransisco
ER  -