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 condition of the Mal’ta objects, as preserved in museum collections, varies.
Some of the ivory pieces have survived with remarkable integrity, retaining their original surface detail and dimensions.
Others have been affected by the decades of storage, the museum environment, and the natural processes that continue to affect ancient organic material even after excavation.
Stabilization and conservation treatment has been applied to the most vulnerable pieces, allowing them to survive in better condition than they otherwise would.
The beads from the burial have been studied in detail by researchers interested in their manufacture.
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