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
It is, in its way, a remarkable inheritance.
The Beads And What Survives
The 120 bone beads from the MA-1 burial survive.
They are held today in museum collections in Russia, along with the other objects from the Mal’ta excavations and the skeletal remains of the child himself.
The ivory tiara fragment survives.
The bird carving survives.
The pendants and plaques survive.
These objects have outlasted everything else that the people of Mal’ta created.
