The 10,300-Year-Old Man Found Inside An Alaskan Island Cave — And The DNA Test That Revealed 10,000 Years Of Native Coastal Continuity
This expansion of scale — from individual to population to deep time — is one of the characteristic moves of ancient DNA research.
The genetics of a single individual can address questions about population history that no amount of analysis of that individual’s physical characteristics alone could answer.
The genome, by carrying the record of ancestry across many generations, connects the individual to a much larger story that extends far before and potentially far after the specific moment of that person’s life.
For Shuká Káa, that expansion of scale is particularly striking.
He was one man, living one life on one island 10,300 years ago.
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