Bones of early American disappear from underwater cave [View all]

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One of the first humans to inhabit the Americas has been stolen – and archaeologists want it back.

The skeleton, which is probably at least 10,000 years old, has disappeared from a cenote, or underground water reservoir, in Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula.

In response, the National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) in Mexico City has placed "wanted" posters in supermarkets, bakeries and dive shops in and around the nearby town of Tulum. They are also considering legal action to recover the remains.

The missing bones belong to a skeleton dubbed Young Man of Chan Hol II, discovered in 2010. The cenote in which it was found had previously yielded another 10,000-year-old skeleton – the Young Man of Chan Hol, discovered in 2006.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21741-bones-of-early-american-disappear-from-underwater-cave.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news

I hope they recover the remains before they go into the "collection" of a 1%er. They have great scientific significance, apparently.