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Stories
No. 003
How Do Archaeologists Know How Old Bones Are?
How is a skeleton dated? Radiocarbon reaches about 50,000 years; uranium-series, ESR and luminescence go further. See what each method dates, how accurate it is and famous examples.
No. 002
Naia of Hoyo Negro
Who was Naia, the teenage girl found in Hoyo Negro near Tulum? Her age, date, DNA, the Ice Age animals with her and where her remains are cared for today.
No. 001
The Chinchorro Mummies
The Chinchorro of northern Chile made the oldest artificial mummies, about 5,050 BCE. How they made them, why, how they compare to Egypt and where to see them.