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Donna di La Brea

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Donna di La Brea
SpecieHomo sapiens
Età10.250
Luogo scopertaLa Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, Stati Uniti d'America
Anno scoperta1914
Autore scopertaA. L. Kroeber

Donna di La Brea, La Brea Woman in inglese, sono i resti fossili di uno scheletro appartenuto ad una donna, rinvenuti nel 1914 nei pozzi di catrame di La Brea Tar Pits a Los Angeles negli Stati Uniti d'America.[1][2]

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Si ritiene che la donna, vissuta circa 10.250 anni fa, avesse tra i 17 e 28 anni al momento della sua morte, causata da un colpo ricevuto alla testa, e fosse alta meno di un metro e mezzo[1].

Lo scheletro fu ritrovato associato ai resti di un cane, faccendo così ipotizzare che la donna fosse stata sepolta con un rituale funebre, ma studi del 2016 hanno datato le ossa dell'animale a circa 3.000 anni fa, dimostrando quindi l'inconsistenza di questa ipotesi[3].

  1. ^ a b (EN) Beth Shook, Katie Nelson, Kelsie Aguilera e Lara Braff, Stones and Bones: Studying the Fossil Record, in Explorations, 2019, ISBN 978-1-931303-62-0.
  2. ^ (EN) ohn C. Merriam, Preliminary Report on the Discovery of Human Remains in an Asphalt Deposit at Rancho La Brea, in Science, vol. 40, 1914, pp. 198-203, DOI:10.1126/science.40.1023.198.
  3. ^ (EN) Fuller, B. T., Southon, J. R., Fahrni, S. M., Harris, J. M., Farrell A. B., Takeuchi, G. T. e Taylor, R. E., Tar Trap: No Evidence of Domestic Dog Burial with “La Brea Woman.”, in PaleoAmerica, 2(1), 2016, pp. 56–59, DOI:10.1179/2055557115Y.0000000011.

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