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
A world of cold, darkness in winter, and the constant management of resources in a demanding environment.
A world in which the people who lived there had developed a rich material and symbolic culture that expressed itself in figurines, ornaments, and elaborate burials.
A world that was about to be connected, by the child’s own genome, to a story that would unfold thousands of miles away and thousands of years in the future.
The Birth Of Ancient DNA Science
To understand what the MA-1 genome revealed, it is necessary to understand something about the science that made reading it possible.
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