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
That kind of expert recognition of potential scientific value in archival material is a skill that is both valuable and relatively rare.
Other collections undoubtedly hold specimens of comparable scientific potential.
The human remains collected from archaeological sites across Alaska, the Arctic, and Beringia during the mid-twentieth century and earlier — specimens that were collected with the best methods available at the time, but that have not yet been subjected to modern analysis — represent a scientific resource whose full value has not yet been realized.
The ethical dimensions of this resource are complex.
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