The 10,600-Year-Old Man Found In Nevada — And The DNA Discovery That Changed The Story Of The First Americans
What The Genome Revealed About Migration
The Spirit Cave Man’s DNA was scientifically significant for reasons that extended well beyond the repatriation dispute.
His genome contributed to the growing picture of how and when the Americas were first populated — one of the oldest and most debated questions in the study of human prehistory.
By the time the Spirit Cave study was published in 2018, the broad outline of the first Americans’ origins had been established by genetics.
The founding population of the Americas had come from northeastern Asia, via the Bering land bridge that connected Siberia to Alaska during periods of lower sea level.
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