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Sulphur Springs Woman: An Early Human Skeleton from Southeastern Arizona

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Michael R. Waters
Michael R. Waters*
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P.O. Box 35878, Tucson, AZ 85740-5878
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Abstract

Sulphur Springs Woman, an early human burial, was recovered from alluvial deposits dated between 8,200 and 10,000 years before the present in Whitewater Draw, southeastern Arizona. These are the oldest human remains from the Southwest and are some of the oldest in North America. These bones provide data on the earliest inhabitants of the New World.

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American Antiquity , Volume 51 , Issue 2 , April 1986 , pp. 361 - 365
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Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1986

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