The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
His diet included substantial marine food over an extended period.
He was wearing clothing that mixed coastal and interior elements.
He had salmon in his stomach at the time of his death.
His mitochondrial DNA places him within a lineage characteristic of the Indigenous peoples of the Northwest Coast and subarctic interior.
Seventeen living people share closely matching maternal-line sequences with him.
What the science has not established, and cannot establish: his name in his own language and community.
His clan identity, with certainty.