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
What came after is not yet documented with the same specificity.
The people of the Seward Peninsula today — the Inupiaq communities whose cultural and territorial connections to this landscape are deep and unbroken — are the inheritors of a long and complex history of human occupation in this region.
Whether that history includes specific genetic continuity with the Ancient Beringian populations documented at Trail Creek and Upward Sun River is a question that requires both the scientific investigation and the community engagement to address properly.
The history of a place does not belong only to the scientists who study it.
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