The cave has more to say, and the field has better tools for listening than it did even a decade ago.

But what has already been said — what the cut marks on the horse mandible, the AMS dates, the taphonomic analysis, and the calibration calculations have established — is enough to fundamentally change how we understand when and how the Americas were first inhabited.

Someone was in the Yukon 24,000 years ago.

They were processing horses for their meat and their hides and their tendons.

They were living in a cold and productive landscape during the harshest period of the last Ice Age.