Peñon woman or Peñon Woman III is the name for the human remains, specifically a skull, of a Paleo-Indian woman found by an ancient lake bed in Pueblo Peñón de los Baños in Mexico City in 1959. [1]
Peñon Woman III was found on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. [2]
The skeleton's age has been estimated by radiocarbon dating by Silvia Gonzalez of Liverpool John Moores University. [3] Her 14C date is 10,755±55 years [2] (12,705 cal years) BP.
She is one of the oldest human remains found in the Americas. [4] [5] [6]
Gonzalez theorizes that Peñon woman is related to the historic Pericú people of Baja California, who also shared similar physical traits. [7]