She was a specific child — a specific individual who was part of both worlds and belonged fully to neither.

She lived for some years.

She left no trace except her bones and her DNA.

She had no idea that 90,000 years after her death, scientists would be debating the implications of her genome for the understanding of human evolution.

She was simply a girl, living in a cave in the mountains, whose parents happened to be different from each other in ways that will fascinate humans for as long as they study the ancient past.

The Bone, Again