New sites are still being found.

The people buried in them are still being discovered by accident, by construction projects, by archaeologists conducting systematic surveys.

Each discovery adds something to the human record — and each one raises the same questions about who they were, where they came from, how they lived, and who, if anyone, speaks for them today.

Those are not questions that have simple answers.

But they are questions that matter — not just to archaeologists, not just to geneticists, not just to the Indigenous communities whose ancestors are in those bones, but to everyone who is trying to understand the full human history of this continent.