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Skeleton Found in Underwater Cave in Mexico Yielding Secrets

Sam Meacham, a researcher with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, is part of the archaeological dive team exploring the Hoyo Negro site in Mexico's Yucatán.

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The discovery of a well-preserved human skeleton deep within a submerged Yucatán cave is shedding new light on the debate over who were the first Americans, and a Texas State University researcher Sam Meacham of The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment is part of the archaeological dive team.

Sam Meacham, a researcher with the Meadows Center for Water and the Environment at Texas State University, is part of the archaeological dive team exploring the Hoyo Negro site in Mexico's Yucatán, where a 12,000-year-old skeleton found in the underwater cave is yielding new information about the origins of the earliest Americans. DNA taken from the teeth of the skull suggests a genetic link between Paleoamericans and modern Native Americans, according to a report in the journal Science. (San Marcos Mercury)

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