The ice took him and kept him for several centuries.

And when the ice gave him back, the world had changed enough that it was possible to read, in the molecules of his cells, a story that connected him to the living.

That connection — specific, biological, culturally meaningful, carefully established through a community process governed by the First Nations whose ancestor he was — is the most important finding of the entire project.

Not because the DNA solved the mystery of who he was.