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 Mal’ta child’s grave was a single burial — one individual, one family’s grief, one community’s care for one of its young members.
Other people associated with the site died and were presumably buried somewhere.
Finding and analyzing additional burials would dramatically expand what researchers understand about the population and its practices.
The work continues.
The site, after nearly a century of excavation, still holds its secrets.
Returning To The Stone
A flat stone, placed over the body of a child who would lie beneath it for 24,000 years.
The stone was placed by human hands.
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