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
The Trail Creek child was alive 4,000 years before the invention of writing.
Her community preserved its knowledge, its history, its beliefs, and its relationships entirely through oral transmission and embodied practice — the same methods that human communities had used for hundreds of thousands of years before writing was invented, and that Indigenous communities across the world continue to maintain alongside written records today.
Consider: the extinction of the woolly mammoth from most of its range in Eurasia and North America occurred approximately 10,000 years ago.
The Trail Creek child was alive 1,000 years after that extinction event.
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