Through the rise and fall of every civilization that history records.

Through the crossing of the Bering land bridge and the peopling of two continents.

Through every major event in human history between 24,000 BCE and 2013 CE.

And in 2013, the genome of the child beneath the stone was read by scientists who had been developing the tools to read it for most of a lifetime, and what the genome said was: this child was connected, across 24,000 years and an ocean, to the people who were the first to call the Americas home.

The stone covered everything.