A prehistoric human skeleton was found in a Mexico cave system that experts say is threatened by a planned high-speed tourist train in the jungle.
MEXICO CITY — A prehistoric human skeleton has been found in a cave system that was flooded at the end of the last ice age 8,000 years ago, according to a cave-diving archaeologist on Mexico's Caribbean coast.
"There it is. We don't know if the body was deposited there or if that was where this person died," said Del Rio. He said that the skeleton was located about 8 meters underwater, about a half-kilometer into the cave system. But Del Rio said Tuesday that institute archaeologist Carmen Rojas told him that the site was registered and would be investigated by the institute's Quintana Roo state branch Holocene Archaeology Project.
Del Rio has been exploring the region for three decades, and in 2002 he participated in the discovery and cataloguing of remains known as The Woman of Naharon, who died around the same time, or perhaps earlier, than Naia — the nearly complete skeleton of a young woman who died around 13,000 years ago. It was discovered in a nearby cave system in 2007.
Caves along part of the coast already have been damaged by construction above them, with cement pilings used to support the weight above. Del Rio said the route through the jungle should be abandoned and the train should be built over the already impacted coastal highway between Cancun and Tulum, as was originally planned.
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