The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
The Wheelers’ documentation of the Spirit Cave burial was good.
Their field notes recorded the position of the body, the layering of the burial materials, the specific construction of the moccasins and the mats, the spatial relationship of the different elements within the burial.
These records were detailed enough that researchers working fifty and sixty years later could use them to understand the burial context in ways that would have been impossible without them.
When the radiocarbon dating in the 1990s revealed the burial’s true age, the Wheelers’ documentation became the foundation for a completely re-evaluated understanding of what had been found.
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