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
The children who lost their teeth at Yana were not waiting to be famous.
They were not waiting for anything except whatever came next in their short lives.
They were children, growing up in the Ice Age Arctic, in a community that survived and thrived in conditions that would be lethal to most modern humans without modern equipment.
What came next, eventually, was science.
Twenty-first-century science, operating across a gulf of thirty-one thousand years, reading the molecular code in the only two pieces of those children that survived.
The Ancient North Siberians were a significant part of human history, as Willerslev said.