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 people who made these figurines also buried a child with more than 120 ornaments and a diadem of mammoth ivory.
They were the same people.
Why 24,000 Years Changes Everything
When we say that a burial is 24,000 years old, we are saying something so large that it resists being felt.
Let’s try to feel it anyway.
Twenty-four thousand years ago, the first civilizations — the cities and writing systems and organized states that define the historical period — were more than eighteen thousand years in the future.
Egypt would not exist for another nineteen thousand years.