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

The stone covered the burial for 24,000 years.

The genome will be studied for as long as the science continues.

Both of these are, in their different ways, forms of persistence.

The first was arranged by people who loved a child and wanted to protect his resting place.

The second was produced by people who were curious about the deep past and who had developed the tools to ask questions of 24,000-year-old bones.

Different intentions.