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How a Contaminated Skeleton Rewrote Prehistory—Twice

Summary by Mexicanist
In the sun-baked plains of Acolman, where the ghosts of mammoths once thundered and ancient lakes shimmered under Pleistocene skies, lies a tale as tangled as a pre-Columbian glyph. It begins with bones—bones that sparked a century-spanning soap opera of science, scandal, and one fossil’s existential crisis.On February 22, 1947, Helmut de Terra, a man with a name as sturdy as a pickaxe, unearthed what he believed to be Mexico’s oldest celebrity:…
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Mexicanist broke the news in on Friday, February 7, 2025.
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