They covered him in red.

They placed him carefully in a rock shelter in the Montana hillside, where he remained, untouched, for twelve thousand years.

The science that eventually engaged with those remains — the radiocarbon dating, the osteological analysis, the genomic sequencing — found things that matter.

They matter for the history of science, for the understanding of human prehistory, for the legal and political contexts in which Indigenous rights are debated and decided.

The findings are real and they are important.