The Kolyma1 individual, that 10,000-year-old woman from near the Kolyma River, sits in this sequence as a representative of the Ancient Paleo-Siberians: a population that combined ANS-related ancestry with East Asian-related ancestry, and that had a close relationship to the ancestral population of Native Americans.

The full story of how all these population movements eventually converged in the founding of the Americas is still being worked out.

New ancient genomes from the region are being sequenced and analyzed as excavations continue and as methodological capabilities improve.

Each new individual adds information, sometimes confirming existing models and sometimes complicating them.

The Yana children were the starting point of a story whose middle and later chapters are still being written.

The Children Themselves — A Brief Return To The Human Center