The remains were discovered in October 2020 by a group of construction workers digging to install gas lines in a house under construction.
Notes on verification
Multiple independent Argentine news outlets, CONICET institutional sources, and international science media confirm the October 2020 discovery during house construction, with most specifying gas line installation. One outlet cited a garden-leveling variant, but the overwhelming majority corroborate the gas-line detail precisely. [cascade flags: aggregator_dropped_primary_exists | tier=silver indep_score=0.838 clusters=4 claim_tier=notable | framework convergence=partial on Most news reports trace back to the same CONICET/IDEAus press release and the peer-reviewed study in Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports (upstreams: IDEAus-CONICET research team (Gómez Otero, Svoboda, Millán, Banegas), CENPAT-CONICET) — publishers independent, evidence may not be | kind=empirical eligibility=high]
Sources
- Revelan el hallazgo de los restos humanos más antiguos de la Pat (seed:history_and_archaeology)
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25005486 (corroboration)
- https://www.lmneuquen.com/patagonia/los-ninos-camarones-los-restos-humanos-mas-antiguos-la-patagonia-que-encontraron-unos-albaniles-n1237588 (corroboration)
- https://www.cafecientificopatagonia.com/hallazgo-arqueologico-restos-humanos-hallados-en-camarones-datan-unos-11-mil-anos-de-antiguedad/ (corroboration)
- https://www.anthropology.net/p/two-children-under-the-beach-ridge (corroboration)