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 is one window into that process.
He is the oldest, clearest window into the Ancient North Eurasian component of the founding mixture.
And the story that window reveals — of Ice Age Siberians whose genetic heritage contributed to the ancestry of the entire Western Hemisphere’s original peoples — is a story that no previous era of science had the tools to tell.
The Significance That Endures
More than a decade after the 2014 publication, the significance of the MA-1 result has not diminished.
If anything, it has grown more apparent as subsequent research has built on the foundation the paper established.
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