That this long dead body was found to have living descendents is truly wonderful. From the article:
Scientists have found a direct link between the frozen remains of a man found in a glacier in northern B.C. and 17 people living in B.C., Yukon and Alaska.
The news came at a symposium in Victoria this past weekend, focusing on Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi’, an aboriginal man whose remains were found in 1999 by hunters in Tatshenshini-Alsek Park, which is in the traditional territory of the Champagne and Aishihik First Nations.
“The connection to the people,” said Al Mackie, an archaeologist on the project, “how they know his clan, how they know who his relatives are, that’s amazing. You just don’t get that in archaeology. It never happens.”
Kwaday Dan Ts’inchi’ means Long Ago Person Found, and he’s believed to have died some time between the years 1670 and 1850. His remains were revealed after a glacier started to recede.
globeandmail.com: Scientists link 17 living people to an aboriginal man found in glacier
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