November
21
/ 2013
The DNA of a young boy found in eastern Siberia holds the key to unravelling the mystery of where Native Americans originated. The 24,000 year-old remains revealed two major surprises for anthropologists when they completed an analysis of his genome. The remains of the boy, aged 3 to 4 years old, were found buried at Mal’ta near Lake Baikal in eastern Siberia. He was buried under a stone slab wearing an ivory diadem, a bead necklace and a bird-shaped pendant. The discovery was made by Russian archaeologists back in 1938, following which the remains sat in a museum for decades gathering dust. The true significance of the finding was unrealised until they were examined by a team led by Eske
