The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
The findings were significant.
The connections established between the ancient man and the seventeen living relatives were extraordinary.
But all of it was, in the end, in service of a more fundamental obligation: to treat this person with the respect owed to the dead, according to the values and authorities of the people to whom he belonged.
That the scientific knowledge was produced within this framework — not despite it, not in spite of it, but as part of it — is the most important lesson the Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi project offers for how such research should be conducted.
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