MUJER DE LAS PALMAS
Anthropologist Alejandro Terrazas
from the Instituto de Investigacio-
nes Antropológicas in Mexico City
examines the skull of the Mujer de
Las Palmas. The skeleton of a woman
was found in 2005 in the Las Palmas
cenote at a depth of 72 ft and dates
back 13,000 years. At the time of
her death, the woman was 45 to
50 years old, 5 ft tall, and weighed
128 lb.