Exhibited in Cancun human remains of more than 12,000 years old

Skeletal remains of more than 12 thousand years since shown this weekend at the Museum of Maya Cancun as part of the exhibition "Early Man in Central Mexico" in the Maya Museum of Cancun, with copies of the Osteoteca INAH. 

Osteoteca collections of the Department of Physical Anthropology at the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) left the nation's capital to share with the public exhibition of Quintana Roo physical anthropology that integrates feature six skulls, two skeletons complete and disarticulated bones of two women and six adult men, whose age ranges from 12,700 to 4,500 years BP (before present) datings obtained in carbon 14 laboratories. 

INAH said in a statement noted that the skulls are for the man Chimalhuacán (10.500 years), found in 1984 in the town of the same name; Man Balderas (10.500 years), discovered in 1968 on the streets of Balderas during excavations to build the Metro Line 1, in the City of Mexico; Man Tlapacoya (12,000 years), located in 1968 on the hill of Tlapacoya, State of Mexico. 

Skulls man Texcal (7.480 years), found in 1964 in Cave Texcal Valsequillo in Puebla are also exhibited; Man of San Vicente Chicoloapan (4,500 years), found in 1955, in the town which took its name, in the State of Mexico; and Man Tepexpan (6.200 years), discovered in 1947 in lacustrine silts of Lake Texcoco, in the State of Mexico. 

Also, complete skeletons of man Chimalhuacán include (10.500 years, still unconfirmed by the method of carbon-14) and the woman Texcala (AP 7.200 years), this along with disarticulated bones also were associated. 

As part of museology, a map of the Basin of Mexico indicates the sites where skulls, photographs of places of findings and a digital animation that recreates how they could have lived the first human groups in what is today located the Midwest, and another plane describes the migration routes of man for the Americas. 

José Concepción Jiménez, author of scientific script of the exhibition together with Gabriela Salas, said the exhibition is part of the project "Early Man in Mexico", developed by the Directorate of Physical Anthropology (DAF) and directed by him. "The Early Man in Central Mexico" will remain in the Maya Museum of Cancun until October 2014.