These unknowns are not failures of the science.

They are honest descriptions of what a partial physical record of one individual’s existence can and cannot tell us.

The science extracted from the available evidence is remarkable.

The remaining mysteries are equally real.

The appropriate response to these unknowns is not to fill them with speculation but to acknowledge them while making the most of what is genuinely known.

The known facts — that he was an adult male, living 10,300 years ago on Prince of Wales Island, eating a marine diet, with ancestry related to the later peoples of the Northwest Coast — are extraordinary facts that carry genuine historical significance without any need for embellishment.