Two 6,000-year old human skeletons with perfectly preserved teeth have been found on a Brazilian construction site.

The remains were found at a site on the BR-470 road in the Ilhota municipality in the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina.

The skeletons' skulls and leg bones appear to be well-preserved with the full set of teeth still clearly visible.

It is believed the site would have been an island in a lagoon when the ancient humans were alive.

Scientists say the skeletons may belong to people from one of the hundreds of Jiquabu tribes that inhabited Brazil as long as 10,000 years ago up until the colonial period.



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Dr Schwengber said that the island would have been isolated and would have had no drinking water.

Experts believe the site was probably used for ceremonies and funeral rituals.

'Data collected at the site indicates they had a diet of fish, such as catfish, snapper, sea bass and corvina', said Dr Schwengber.

'The small size of the fish indicates that the food supplies were the juvenile fish present in shallow waters.'

The skeletons' skulls and leg bones appear to be well-preserved with the teeth still clearly visible, experts have said

The skeletons, which were found during works to extend the road in May (pictured), were sent to the Beta Analytics laboratory in Florida which found they were 5,880 years old

Sources suggest when Portuguese explorers arrived in Brazil it was inhabited by hundreds of Jiquabu tribes, the earliest of which had been around 10,000 years ago in the highlands of Minas Gerais.

These inhabitants were called 'Indians' by the Portugese.

Experts believe that these early tribes were part of a wave of migrant hunters who came into the Americas from Asia, perhaps via the Bering Strait.

These cultures never developed written records or permanent agriculture so very little is known about them.

At the time of European discovery, it is believed Brazil had as many as 2,000 tribes who were semi-nomadic.

The skeletons are now in a laboratory owned by a company called Tuburao where they are undergoing further analysis.

Schwengber said that the island would have been isolated and would have had no drinking water. Experts believe the site was probably used for ceremonies and funeral rituals

Data collected at the site indicates they had a diet of fish, such as catfish, snapper, sea bass and corvina, said Dr Schwengbe

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Hmmm. Oyinbo and their zeal for development and advancement. If na black, them go done dey look for one baba or politician or pastor or Imam to sell the skull to.

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fascinating

incredibile

ROYAL007 the uprooter. it is new yam session and you went to harvest skeleton?.

Meeehn!!! Who else noticed that beautiful highway seemingly in the middle of nowhere?

Before Abraham there were men

Chai! They have better teeth than I do!
Buhari why?

New world record

Pamela why?

Buhari you see what you course

Oyinbo sha with yeye findings

hezy4real01:
Oyinbo sha with yeye findings

You can be sure that they have stolen any gold and precious stones found in that ancient grave.

The guys are grave robbers, basically.

itiswellandwell:
Hmmm. Oyinbo and their zeal for development and advancement. If na black, them go done dey look for one baba or politician or pastor or Imam to sell the skull to.

you mean afonjas?

revontuli:
Chai! They have better teeth than I do! Buhari why?

in a bit to sound funny, u sounded foolish.
What as PMB got to do with ur smelly dirty teeth?
Teeth that u used different d!cks to brush.
Dirty wh0re

immhotep:

You can be sure that they have stolen any gold and precious stones found in that ancient grave.

The guys are grave robbers, basically.

hahahahahaha no doubt man

NigerArea:
ONE THING I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IS HOW THEY FOUND OUT THE AGE OF THINGS THEY DISCOVER,

HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THE SKELETON IS UP TO 6000 YEARS AND NOT 300 YEARS, HOW DO THEY GET THE AGE?!
HIW DID THEY KNOW THE EARTH IS 4.5BILLION+ YEARS?

I LOVE SCIENCE WITH ALL MY HEART

Radioisotope dating

NigerArea:
ONE THING I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IS HOW THEY FOUND OUT THE AGE OF THINGS THEY DISCOVER,

HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THE SKELETON IS UP TO 6000 YEARS AND NOT 300 YEARS, HOW DO THEY GET THE AGE?!
HOW DID THEY KNOW THE EARTH IS 4.5BILLION+ YEARS?

I LOVE SCIENCE WITH ALL MY HEART

Google Radiocarbon dating Methods

wow

NigerArea:
ONE THING I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IS HOW THEY FOUND OUT THE AGE OF THINGS THEY DISCOVER,

HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THE SKELETON IS UP TO 6000 YEARS AND NOT 300 YEARS, HOW DO THEY GET THE AGE?!
HOW DID THEY KNOW THE EARTH IS 4.5BILLION+ YEARS?

I LOVE SCIENCE WITH ALL MY HEART

radio carbon dating....all matter in the universe has a minute Carbon compound in it..so scientist will use that to determine the likely age using the half life of the carbon compound found in the fossil.....its a branch of science called archeology...

NigerArea:
ONE THING I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND ABOUT SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS IS HOW THEY FOUND OUT THE AGE OF THINGS THEY DISCOVER,

HOW DID THEY KNOW THAT THE SKELETON IS UP TO 6000 YEARS AND NOT 300 YEARS, HOW DO THEY GET THE AGE?!
HOW DID THEY KNOW THE EARTH IS 4.5BILLION+ YEARS?

I LOVE SCIENCE WITH ALL MY HEART

Google radiocarbon dating.