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 made it to the place where his bones were eventually found.
He made it more than a thousand feet from the entrance, through mud and restrictions and darkness, to a specific location deep in the mountain.
And then something happened.
What happened — whether he fell, whether he became exhausted, whether he fell ill, whether he simply lay down in the cave having accomplished whatever he came to do — is not established by the evidence.
He died there.