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
What we understand about him continues to grow.
The Final Reflection
Return to the grave one last time.
The stone slab that covered it was flat — chosen, presumably, for its flatness and its size.
Someone looked at the landscape near the burial site, found a suitable stone, and brought it to the grave.
This involved physical labor, but more than that, it involved decision-making: this stone, not that one.
This size, this shape, this weight.