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
They know that a child died, and that they loved him, and that this burial is the last thing they can do for him.
They do the last thing they can do.
The stone is placed.
The Siberian cold closes around the grave.
And the 24,000 years begin.
In those 24,000 years, everything changes.
The mammoths disappear.
The ice sheets retreat.