Naia (skeleton)
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Naia (designated as HN5/48) is the name[lower-alpha 1] given to a 12,000 – to 13,000-year-old human skeleton of a teenage female who was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico. Her bones were part of a 2007 discovery of a cache of animal bones in a cenote called Hoyo Negro (Spanish for "Black Hole") in the Sistema Sac Actun.[1] At the time of Naia's death, the cave system was mostly dry, and she likely died falling into Hoyo Negro.[2]
The remains have been described as the "oldest, most complete and genetically intact human skeleton in the New World".[3]