The 13,000-Year-Old Child Found In Montana – And What His DNA Revealed About The First Americans
He remains a person after the genome has been published and analyzed and debated and deposited in a scientific database.
And the people who buried him twice — once twelve thousand years ago with red ochre and a hundred careful tools, and once in 2014 with ceremony and grief and respect — understood that in a way that no scientific paper could fully articulate, but that the science, at its best, did not contradict.
The Question The DNA Opened
The Anzick-1 genome was published ten years ago.
In that decade, the field of ancient American genomics has expanded enormously.