The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later

A Second Opening: The Man Science Cannot Fully Know

At some point in the Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi story, the accumulation of scientific findings — the dates, the isotopes, the DNA, the analysis of clothing and tools — gives way to a different kind of question.

Not what can we measure, but what does it all mean about who this man actually was?

The science has established, with varying degrees of certainty, a set of facts about Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi.

He died somewhere between approximately 300 and 550 years ago.