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

Before a cave has been fully surveyed, each new section represents genuinely unknown terrain.

For the ancient man who entered Hourglass Cave roughly 8,800 years ago, every inch of the cave was unknown terrain on the first entry.

There were no maps.

There was no prior human knowledge of what lay ahead.

There was no way to predict how long the passages would continue, where they would branch, or which way to go at each junction.

What he did have, apparently, was light.