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
This is the limit of what can be said about her as an individual.
No name.
No burial.
No indication of the circumstances of her death or the nature of the community she lived in.
A single tooth and the information it contains — the molecular residue of a life that lasted, at most, a year and a half.
The restraint required in presenting this information — the resistance to the temptation to fill the empty spaces with invented narrative — is one of the more demanding aspects of writing accurately about archaeological evidence.
There is genuine human emotion associated with this finding.