The 8,800-Year-Old Man Found 1,000 Feet Inside A Colorado Cave — And The DNA Test That Linked Him To A Native American Founder Lineage
He is not simply an ancient person who happened to die in the mountains.
He is evidence of human presence specifically in the high-altitude environment of the Colorado Rockies at a period when the patterns of high-altitude use were still being established.
The consistency between the Hourglass Cave dates and the broader pattern of early high-altitude occupation in the Rockies argues against treating the man as an anomaly.
He was not the first person to use the Colorado high country, nor the only one in his time period.
He was part of a pattern of early Holocene human activity at elevation that is documented, however incompletely, at multiple sites across the region.
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