The bones are still there.

The DNA is still being analyzed.

The questions are still being asked.

And the caves of Lagoa Santa — limestone shelters that have witnessed twelve thousand years of human habitation, ceremony, birth, death, and the slow accumulation of the evidence that science is now learning to read — are still there, in the cerrado of Minas Gerais, holding whatever secrets the next generation of researchers will learn to ask for.

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