See The Shocking Faces Of The First Americans

Scientists have pieced together one of the oldest skeletons to ever be found in the Americas. From the January issue of National Geographic magazine.

You're looking at the face of one of the first Americans. Meet "Naia." She is around 13,000 years old.

Her story is a tragic one. She was only a teenager when she met her demise by falling in this underwater cave in Yucatán, Mexico.

Mexican divers found her bones in 2007.

Her genetic marker revealed a link to an isolated group that came from Asia.

Read more about Naia here.

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