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 community that buried him was here.
The people who are, in some small but real way, their descendants — the Indigenous peoples of two continents — are here.
The stone covered everything for 24,000 years.
Everything it covered still matters.
The Numbers Behind The Beads
More than 120 objects in a single burial.
It is worth pausing on this number and working through what it implies about the scale of the community’s investment.
Consider the time required to produce a single bead by Upper Paleolithic methods.
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