Discovered in 1931 on a construction site in Pelican Rapids, the Minnesota Woman – now named Nimuué – is one of the oldest skeletal remains found in North America. Our organization is dedicated to sharing her story and preserving her legacy which dates back to our glacial prehistoric origins.

Minnesota Woman, also known as Pelican Rapids-Minnesota Woman (c. 5955 – c. 5939 BC), is the name given to the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old. [1] The bones were found near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota on June 16, …

Nimuué is the name given to the skeleton of a young woman discovered on June 16, 1931, beneath the center of what eventually would become U.S. Highway 59, located along the east side of Prairie Lake, north of Pelican Rapids, in Otter Tail County, Minnesota.

2018年4月17日 · The skeleton of 10,600-year-old man shrouded in a rabbit-skin blanket and reed mats is the oldest known mummy ever found in the United States. Strewn about the Nevada cave where the mummy was discovered were numerous artifacts, along with the cremated remains of three other individuals.

Thus Otter Tail County may claim to have been the home of one of the first human beings to have lived on the North American continent during the Pleistocene Epoch age. If scientists are correct, this Pelican Rapids teenage girl dates back beyond the days of the Pharaohs of Egypt, and beyond the written history of humanity.

The Pelican Rapids skull, found by a road crew in gravel eight feet below the surface, is estimated to be 10,000 years old. With the skull was found a conch shell believed to have come from the Gulf of Mexico and an antler dagger.

2021年12月22日 · Archaeologists believe that the girl drown in Glacial Lake Pelican, which adjoined Glacial Lake Agassiz, a huge body of water that covered much of northwestern Minnesota at the end of the last ice age. Erected 1992 by Minnesota Historical Society. Topics.

2019年6月29日 · I revive the mystery of the skeletal remains of a young woman found 9 ft. down by road crews in 1931 in a layer of Ice Age lake deposit near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota. I read what was and has...

2023年10月16日 · Minnesota Woman, also known as Pelican Rapids-Minnesota Woman, is the skeletal remains of a woman thought to be 8,000 years old. The bones were found near Pelican Rapids, Minnesota on June 16, 1931, during construction on U.S. Route 59.

2016年10月16日 · As construction workers were excavating a roadway along the eastern shore of Prairie Lake near Pelican Rapids in 1931, they uncovered one of the most exciting prehistoric finds in this region of North America—a human skeleton.