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 child it belonged to cannot be given her name back.
The specific circumstances of her life — the community she was part of, the landscape she experienced, the specific human connections that defined her brief existence — are not recoverable from the evidence that survives.
What survives is one tooth, one date, one genomic signature, and the specific population history that that signature illuminates.
It proved that an ancient population branch survived in Alaska far longer than researchers once understood.
A tiny tooth.
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