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

But the seventeen people whose DNA matches his do.

And the community that gave him his name — Long Ago Person Found — does.

And the land that he was crossing when he died, and that his descendants have been crossing ever since, does not forget.

It was always their land.

He was always their ancestor.

The DNA confirmed a connection that the communities already knew how to understand.

That is the most important thing the ice had to tell us.

And it took seventeen living people — related to a man from long ago — to hear it.