The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried Beneath A Stone Slab With 120 Beads And Mammoth-Ivory Jewelry — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
The Mal’ta discovery, in its fullest form, is a story about connection — about the surprising and improbable threads that link the deep human past to the present.
A child dies in Siberia 24,000 years ago.
His community buries him with extraordinary care — beads, an ivory diadem, carved birds, a stone slab.
The burial is preserved by the cold.
The genome survives, degraded but readable.
A team of scientists extracts and analyzes it.
And what they find is a connection — genetic, ancestral, real — between the Ice Age people of Siberia and the Indigenous peoples of the Americas.
This connection does not reduce the Indigenous peoples of the Americas to a Siberian origin story.
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