The 8,500-Year-Old Skeletons Found In A Texas Cave — And The Ancient DNA Mystery Hidden Inside
The evidence does not preserve the interior lives of the ancient Texans.
It preserves their bones, their teeth, their chemical signatures, the objects placed with them, the context of their burial.
It does not preserve what they thought or felt.
The ancient DNA question — the genetic mystery that the headline promises — is, in one important sense, genuinely unresolved.
For the Buckeye Knoll population, the physical opportunity to conduct genomic analysis no longer exists.
For the Bering Sinkhole population, the question of whether successful ancient DNA extraction has been or could be conducted remains uncertain in the published scientific literature.
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