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In a world where news travels instantly and interpreted on the fly, it’s hard to grasp the slow and careful work of archeologists. Lawrence Straus, UNM Leslie Spier Distinguished Professor of Anthropology,...

The team excavated the remaining deposits in the area where 19,000 year-old human remains had been found in 2010-11 and found about 10 more hand and foot bones from the adult woman whose bones and jaw had been collected by her band or family members after flesh decomposition, then stained with red ochre and reburied during the Lower Magdalenian period.