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

This confirmation was important.

It meant that the DNA result from the Mal’ta boy was not a statistical anomaly or a misread.

It was a genuine reflection of a real population, with a real and distinctive genetic history, that had lived in Siberia during the last glacial period.

Between Siberia And The Americas: The Beringian Question

The relationship between the Mal’ta-Buret’ population and the founding of the Americas is not straightforward, and it is important to understand what the Mal’ta genome does and does not tell us about the mechanics of that relationship.

The Mal’ta boy did not cross into the Americas.