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
They are extraordinary.
But they are not a person, in the full sense of a person: a specific human being with a specific inner life, specific relationships, specific history, specific experience of the world.
That person is gone.
What remains is the evidence he left behind.
And from that evidence, scientists have built a story that connects a grave in Siberia to the ancestry of the Indigenous peoples of two continents.
That story is worth telling.