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
A year old.
Perhaps a year and a half.
Old enough to have a few teeth.
Old enough to be walking, or learning to walk, in whatever world the Seward Peninsula was at the time.
Not yet old enough for language in any complex sense.
In the full throes of what any parent of the modern world would recognize as early toddlerhood — the period of extraordinary developmental change, of rapid brain growth, of beginning to interact with the world in new ways.
The specific tooth type — a deciduous central incisor — reflects precisely this developmental stage.
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