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Archaeologists Identify Oldest Known Human Burial in Lower Central America
The unusually muscular young woman was buried in what is now Nicaragua nearly 6,000 years ago
Some 5,900 years ago, a young woman was buried in a shallow pit in Central America. Laid on her back with legs tucked against her chest and arms prone at the sides of her body, she remained undisturbed for nearly six millennia.






