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
It is a legacy that was not intended by anyone who attended that burial.
It is a legacy that required the development of technologies that did not exist when the burial was excavated, and that would not exist for many decades more.
It is a legacy created by the accident of good preservation, the application of scientific curiosity, and the sustained technical effort of a research team determined to read what the bones could tell them.
And it is a legacy that connects the child at Mal’ta to the millions of people alive today who carry, in their genomes, the distant echo of the population he belonged to.
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