Four years ago, a group of archeologists discovered the remains of a cremated 3-year-old near central Alaska’s Upward Sun River. The child’s body had been burned after its death in a cooking pit located in the family’s tent-pole house about 11,500 years ago, researchers said. In the hours following the burning, the family covered the pit with dirt and moved on, leaving the burial site and their home behind. But what at first appeared to be a one-time burial site has now been confirmed as the location of two infant burials, and one late-term fetus burial, which means that the oldest human remains ever found in the North American subarctic now belong to a human fetus, and a child that was likely less than a year old when she died.
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