The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
The marshes dried.
The climate shifted.
New generations of people lived and died in the same landscape, adapting to the increasingly harsh conditions of the Great Basin desert, maintaining through thousands of years the cultural and biological continuity that would eventually produce the historic peoples of the region.
In 1940, two archaeologists found him and brought him into a world that was not ready to understand what he was.
In the 1990s, new dating techniques revealed that world had been wrong about how old he was, and a legal battle began.
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