File:Subfossil hominid (Holocene, ~2 ka; Salts Cave, Mammoth Cave, Flint Ridge, Kentucky, USA) (26520451149).jpg
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Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 - subfossil hominid in the Holocene of Kentucky, USA. (from Hovey & Call, 1912) Western Kentucky's Mammoth Cave is the longest cave on Earth, with 412 mapped miles as of fall 2017. Human bodies are occasionally found. This one consists of a skeleton and desiccated soft parts. This specimen was discovered in the 1800s in Salts Cave, in the Flint Ridge portion of the Mammoth Cave System. In the 1800s, it was not known that Mammoth Cave connected with caves in Flint Ridge. It had been known that prehistoric American Indians entered & used Mammoth Cave - the oldest known evidence dates to about 2170 B.C. Indian artifacts have been found as far as 12 miles in. Their known activities included the collection of gypsum crystals from the walls of the historic section of Mamoth Cave. The most famous Indian mummy from Mammoth Cave is "Lost John", found in the 1930s in Main Cave, crushed under a large limestone block. A couple other mummies found much nearer to the mouth of the cave were discovered in the 1800s and reburied somewhere in Houchins Narrows. Indian mummies from other Kentucky caves were sometimes put on display at Mammoth Cave, including near the entrance to Gothic Avenue - this specimen is an example of that. It was on long-term display at Mummy's Niche in Gothic Avenue. Stories about these mummies usually gave the incorrect impression that they, too, were found in this historic section of Mammoth Cave. Most of them were not found here. The body eventually ended up at the United States National Museum (USNM; a.k.a. Smithsonian Museum) in Washington D.C. Published isotopic dates on this mummy range from about 10 B.C. to A.D. 130. Salts Cave is not part of modern tours, as it is artifact-rich. Like Mammoth Cave proper, Salts Cave was formerly a site of saltpeter mining in the late 1700s to early 1800s. Classification: Animalia, Chordata, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae Locality: Salts Cave, Flint Ridge, Mammoth Cave National Park, western Kentucky, USA Reference cited: Hovey, H.C. & R.E. Call. 1912. Mammoth Cave of Kentucky, with an Account of Colossal Cavern, Revised Edition. Louisville. John P. Morton & Company. 131 pp. |
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| Source | Subfossil hominid (Holocene, ~2 ka; Salts Cave, Mammoth Cave, Flint Ridge, Kentucky, USA) |
| Author | James St. John |
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