The children above the Arctic Circle are part of that story.

Their milk teeth made sure of it.

Thirty-one thousand years of cold.

Two small teeth.

The beginning of a revelation that is still unfolding.

That is what the Arctic gave to us, from its frozen archive, through the teeth of two children who lived and grew and shed those teeth in one of the most demanding environments humans have ever chosen to call home.

The ice held it all this time.