Vladimir Pitulko and his colleagues have continued to work at the site and at related sites in the region.

The recovery of organic materials from the permafrost continues.

The ancient DNA database for northeastern Siberia continues to grow, slowly, as new specimens are found and sequenced and added to the expanding picture of Pleistocene human history in the region.

Each new ancient genome from the region has the potential to add detail, resolution, and nuance to the story that the Yana children’s teeth first told.

Each new archaeological find from the frozen ground of northeastern Siberia is another piece of evidence about the lives of people who inhabited this landscape during the Ice Age — people who were part of the human story in ways that were invisible before the technology to read their molecular legacy was developed.