A specific ancestry.

The sex of the child.

A direct radiocarbon date that places the specimen in a specific period of Alaskan and North American prehistory.

These are genuine contributions to knowledge, drawn from a single small specimen through the application of sophisticated modern methods.

They are enough to make the tooth scientifically significant.

They are not enough to reconstruct the life of the child who carried it.

Both of these things are true simultaneously, and holding them in mind together is part of what it means to engage seriously with archaeological evidence.