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
Two teeth.
One lost population.
An immense story about the first Americans.
The children at the Yana River did not choose to be remembered.
They were simply alive, in one of the most demanding places humans have ever inhabited, and they grew, and they shed their teeth, and those teeth fell into the sediment that would eventually become part of the most famous archaeological site in the Arctic.
The ice did the rest.