It is an act that says: the world you are entering is real to us.

What you carry matters.

We believe you will go somewhere, and we want you to go equipped.

Whatever the people of Mal’ta believed about death and what followed it, they believed it enough to work for days to express it.

A World Of Ice And Mammoths

To understand who the child at Mal’ta was, it is necessary to understand the world he inhabited — a world so different from ours that it requires a significant act of imagination to enter.

Twenty-four thousand years ago, the Last Glacial Maximum was at or approaching its peak.