He did not.

His genome was squarely within the Native American genetic family, differing from modern populations in ways consistent with the normal genetic drift and differentiation that would accumulate over ten thousand years.

The Clothing That Told A Story

Beyond the DNA, the Spirit Cave burial’s associated materials contained their own kind of evidence — less definitive than genetics, but evocative in ways that the raw molecular data could not be.

The burial wrapping was layered.