The 13,000-Year-Old Child Found In Montana – And What His DNA Revealed About The First Americans
He was a child.
He was buried with care.
He lay in a Montana hillside for twelve thousand years.
He was found, studied, and eventually returned to the earth.
And what he carried in his bones — invisible to the people who buried him, invisible to anyone for more than twelve thousand years — turned out to be one of the most important things anyone has found in the study of who the first Americans were and where they came from.
It said: they were here.
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