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 did not solve the peopling of the Americas.
MA-1 revealed that the problem was more complex and more interesting than the existing models had recognized.
That is a different kind of scientific contribution, and in some ways a more valuable one.
The Mal’ta Figurines In A New Light
The female figurines found at Mal’ta — approximately thirty or more carved ivory objects representing women in various postures and degrees of stylization — have been part of the Mal’ta story for as long as researchers have known about the site.
The DNA analysis of MA-1 gave them a new context.
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