Sistema Ox Bel Ha
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The Sistema Ox Bel Ha (Template:Langx, Template:Langx; short Ox Bel Ha) is a cave system in Quintana Roo, Mexico. It is the longest explored underwater cave in the world[1] and ranks second including dry caves. [2] As of February 2025 the surveyed length is Script error: No such module "convert". of underwater passages.[3] There are more than 160 cenotes in the system.[3][4]
Discoveries
The Naranjal subsystem is part of Sistema Ox Bel Ha. Three prehistoric human remains have been found within the subsystem. The Jailhouse cenote, or Las Palmas, is the entrance to the locations of the Muknal and Las Palmas caves. The skeleton of an 18 to 20-year-old woman, Eve of Naharon, (13,454±117 cal BP) was discovered at a location around Script error: No such module "convert". away from the Jailhouse cenote entrance. The skeleton of a 44 to 50-year-old woman, Template:Interlanguage link multi (8,937±203 cal BP) was found at a location around Script error: No such module "convert". away from the Jailhouse cenote entrance. The Muknal cave, part of the Naranjal subsystem, contained the remains of a 40 to 50-year-old man, the Muknal Grandfather (9,600 cal BP). Unlike the other two skeletons in the subsystem, the Muknal Grandfather shows evidence of secondary burial. Analysis of these skeletons suggests that Ox Bel Ha was likely used as an important site for ritual burial.[4]
A new genus and species of extinct peccary, Muknalia minima, was identified from a fossil mandible found in the Muknal cave of the Ox Bel Ha system.[5] However, it was subsequently recognised that this was a junior synonym of the collared peccary.[6]
See also
References
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- Sistema Sac Actun and Sistema Dos Ojos
- Caves of Mexico
- Landforms of Quintana Roo
- Limestone caves
- Natural history of Quintana Roo
- Sinkholes of Mexico
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