Naia
Paleo-Indian teenage girl whose skeleton was found in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Era: c. 13,000 years ago (c. 11,000 BCE)
Paleoamerican inhabitants of the Americas
Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherer culture
Her remains provided crucial genetic evidence linking early Paleoamerican populations to modern Native American groups, helping clarify early human migration into the Americas.