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
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The Boy And The Meaning
He was three or four years old.
He wore a tiara of mammoth ivory and a necklace of 120 bone beads.
He was covered in red ochre.
