The 9,000-Year-Old Child’s Tooth Found In An Alaska Cave — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Lost Population Of The First Americans
With it, the tooth was a specimen with a specific location, a specific archaeological context, and a specific place in the stratigraphic record of a well-documented cave site.
This is why the meticulous documentation standards of professional archaeology — standards that can seem tedious and bureaucratic to outsiders — are genuinely important.
The information recorded carefully by researchers in the field in 1949 was still useful, still scientifically valuable, nearly seventy years later.
The documentation outlasted all of the researchers who created it and provided the contextual foundation that made modern analysis possible.
The Rediscovery and What Followed
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