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

Stone tools, yes — the durable record that any site might preserve.

But also ivory, and antler, and bone, all intact.

And within the tooth enamel and dentine of two small shed teeth, the molecular record of two children’s genomes — thirty-one thousand years of preservation maintaining the genetic blueprint of a lost population.

This is what permafrost does.

This is what the cold of the Ice Age Arctic achieved, unintentionally, for the benefit of twenty-first-century science.

And it is not just Yana.