Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 159: "Amazing Stories About The Oldest Grave In North America"
This is the bonus show for Episode 159! (Graveyards)
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and Jason Pargin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of a 13,000-year-old grave. It's the oldest buried-on-purpose human in North America, it's illuminating how humans got to the Americas, and one of the geneticists analyzing it should be the main character in a movie.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
Oldest Burial Yields DNA Evidence of First Americans (National Geographic)
Native Americans Descend From Ancient Montana Boy (Science)
The Fertile Shore (Smithsonian Magazine) -- this covers a more recent finding, which also fits the theory that humans first came to the Americas from Asia.
The Clovis Point and the Discovery of America’s First Culture (Smithsonian Magazine)
Mortality in the past: every second child died (Our World In Data)
Alamy stock photo: "Old jug or vase with eyes, necklace and breasts from Akrotiri, Late Cycladic 17C BC, Santorini or Thira Greece"
Down to Earth With: Molecular biologist Sarah L. Anzick (Earth Magazine)
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