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

DNA that had waited 31,000 years for a machine capable of reading it.

And a revelation that connected an Arctic community no one knew existed to one of the most important questions in the history of human migration.

This is that story.

The Place That Found Them First

To understand the teeth, you have to understand the site.

And to understand the site, you have to understand what it meant for human beings to be where these people were at the moment in history when they were there.

The Yana Rhinoceros Horn Site — almost always referred to in the scientific literature as Yana RHS — came to academic attention in a characteristically indirect way.