The first Americans were here.

They were Native American.

They were diverse.

And the people who came after them — all of them, in all their thousands of years of history on this continent — are their children.

The Long Silence Between Discovery And Understanding

There is a dimension of the Upward Sun River story that tends to get compressed in popular accounts: the time between discovery and understanding.

The infant’s remains were first uncovered in 2010 and 2013 during the excavation seasons at the site.