The 11,500-Year-Old Baby Found In Alaska — And The DNA That Revealed A Lost Branch Of The First Americans
Whatever the specific meaning of that choice — and we cannot recover the specific meaning — it was a choice made by people who thought carefully about what her burial should be.
Eleven and a half thousand years later, the care that those people invested in her burial was repaid in a way they could not have imagined: the bones they placed in the ground with love preserved enough biological material for scientists of the distant future to read the genetic story of the founding of the Americas.
The people who buried her did not know they were doing this.
They were doing something much simpler and much more human: they were honoring one of their own.
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