Known to experts as PP-00128, the fragment of bone found in a southeastern Alaskan cave seemed to be from some large mammal that lived in the area thousands of years ago. But ancient DNA evidence ...

or “Man Ahead of Us,” and members of the Tlingit tribe that now live near On Your Knees Cave, where the remains were discovered. The new tests also sampled nuclear DNA from a 6,000-year-old ...

The analysis, detailed in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Science, used DNA from the 10,300-year-old skeletal remains found in 1996 in a cave on Prince of Wales ...

Archaeologists discovered his remains in a southeastern Alaskan cave in 1996, and tried to link a sample of mitochondrial DNA to members of modern indigenous peoples who live in the ...