Sometimes you need to make sure you know what you're looking at before its scientific value is made clear – and that's the case with a 3,000-year-old piece of human bone initially thought to have come from a bear.
that now lives in the area, the ancient individual whose remains were found was named 'Tatóok yík yées sháawat' . It translates as 'Young lady in cave'.
This evidence of genetic continuity passed through the female line over the course of at least three millennia backs up the Tlingit declaration that they have been custodians of this part of Alaska since"time immemorial".
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