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 gesture of permanence, of sealing.
The people who stand at that grave do not know that 24,000 years later, scientists will extract the child’s DNA from his arm bone.
They do not know that the genome will reveal a hidden ancestry connecting their population to the founding of the Americas.
They do not know about the Americas, which have not yet been reached by any human being.
They do not know about genetics, or radiocarbon dating, or ancient genomics.
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