The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried With 120 Beads And A Mammoth-Ivory Tiara — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
MA-1 remains a foundational reference point in all of this work.
The 2014 paper defined the Ancient North Eurasian genetic signal in terms of the MA-1 genome, and all subsequent research that engages with that signal is, in some sense, working in dialogue with the MA-1 result.
The child buried at Mal’ta 24,000 years ago did not choose to be a foundational reference point in modern genetics.
He did not choose to have his genome sequenced.
He did not choose to be relevant to the prehistory of two continents.
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