The 31,000-Year-Old Children’s Teeth Found Above The Arctic Circle — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Lost Ice Age Population Connected To Native American Origins
The scientists who found the site and the teeth and eventually sequenced the DNA did their jobs in the early twenty-first century.
The window in which that combination — preserved materials and capable technology — can still be used to recover the lost stories of the Ice Age Arctic is not permanently open.
It is closing, degree by degree, as the climate warms and the permafrost thaws.
The children at Yana got to tell their story.
Other children, in other sites, in other frozen ground across the Arctic, may not.
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