The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
Science can tell us a great deal about Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi.
It cannot tell us what those ceremonies meant to the people who performed them, or what Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi’s return from the ice meant to the communities that received him.
That meaning belongs to the communities.
It is the living inheritance of the discovery.
The Man And The World He Moved Through
Step back from the isotopes and the mitochondrial sequences and the radiocarbon dates, and think about who Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi actually was in the world he moved through.
He was a person who knew how to travel.