September
09
/ 2016
The 1,200-year-old skeleton of a young man found in a cave in Nepal had been defleshed, but researchers are unsure how he died. The lead researcher of this body and other remains said in 2011 that evidence ruled out cannibalism on the part of the ancient Nepalese people. The Himalayan Times reports that researchers from the University of California used methods from the Standards for Data Collection from Human Skeletal Remains to estimate age and sex. The researchers, led by Mark S. Aldenderfer, also used radiocarbon dating to determine a rough estimate of the age of the remains. Moreover, they tested the man’s DNA to determine his genetic sex. This is not the first skeleton found in the area, which
