The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
The desert stretches in every direction.
The mountains rise to the west where the ancient lake once reflected the sky.
And the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe — the community that fought for two decades for the right to bring their ancestor home — is still here.
They have always been here.
The genome of a man who died before the pyramids were built said so.
The Wheeler Legacy And What Good Documentation Does
There is a dimension of the Spirit Cave story that deserves more attention than it typically receives: the specific scientific value of the documentation that Georgia and Sidney Wheeler produced in 1940.