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
And it will remain as the foundational contribution of the On Your Knees Cave discovery to the understanding of who the first coastal peoples of North America were and what became of them.
They became the Tlingit.
They became the Haida.
They became the Tsimshian and the Heiltsuk and the Kwakwaka’wakw and all the other nations of the coast whose traditions, cultures, and living communities continue to inhabit and steward the same coastline that Shuká Káa knew as home.
Man Ahead of Us.
He was here first, on the same path that his descendants are still walking.
The Bone That Held the Evidence