Spirit Cave
Americannoun
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The US government again cited ancient DNA evidence generated by Willerslev’s team when repatriating remains from Nevada in 2016, including a 10,600-year-old male human skeleton known as the Spirit Cave Mummy.
From Nature • Apr. 15, 2019
Willerslev and his colleagues compared the genome of the man from Spirit Cave to those of four sets of remains found nearby in Nevada’s Lovelock Cave, who lived as recently as 600 years ago.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 16, 2018
Dr. Willerslev and his colleagues compared the genome of the man from Spirit Cave to those of four sets of remains found nearby in Nevada’s Lovelock Cave, who lived as recently as 600 years ago.
From New York Times • Nov. 8, 2018
Cremations are known from two North American sites slightly later than Upward Sun River, Marmes in Washington state and Spirit Cave in Nevada, but they were not in houses.
From Science Magazine • Feb. 24, 2011
That same year, the late Archaeologist Chester Gorman discovered the remains of what seemed to be cultivated wild plants dating to 9700 B.C. at Spirit Cave in northeastern Thailand.
From Time Magazine Archive
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