The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, thirteen miles east of Fallon, Nevada, USA by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
Upon entering Spirit Cave they discovered the remains of two people wrapped in tule matting. One set of remains, buried deeper than the other, had been partially mummified (the head and right shoulder). The Wheelers, with the assistance of local residents, recovered a total of sixty-seven artifacts from the cave.
In 1996 University of California, Riverside anthropologist R. Ervi Taylor examined seventeen of the Spirit Cave artifacts using mass spectrometry. The results indicated that the mummy was approximately 9,400 years old. Further study determined that the mummy exhibits Caucasoid characteristics resembling the Ainu (an Ethnic Japanese people) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_Cave_mummy
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It is a shame that this page is still online. When the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone tribe asked to bury the remains, their request was denied. Somebody examined the mummy and said it couldn’t be an Indian because it had “Caucasoid” characteristics. Modern genetics has disproven the existence of biological “race”. Subsequent DNA testing of the Spirit Cave mummy proved that he was Native American, and the tribe has given him a proper burial. So, to call it a “Caucasian mummy” is both ignorant and incorrect.