The Man Found In A Melting Glacier — And The DNA Test That Found 17 Living Relatives Centuries Later
They belong to different communities with distinct histories and contemporary circumstances.
What they share — in the specific biological sense that the DNA analysis can identify — is a maternal ancestor somewhere in the chains of mothers and daughters and mothers and daughters that connect them all to Kwäday Dän Ts’ìnchi’s maternal line.
That shared ancestor might have been a woman alive a few generations before the man in the ice.
She might have been his own grandmother.
The DNA cannot specify more precisely than the general fact of shared maternal ancestry.
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