
Some 5000 years ago on the coast of Chile’s Atacama Desert, a fisherman drowned in the cold waters of the Pacific. It’s the life-and-death story of an individual who lived millennia ago, and one that researchers are now able to tell, thanks to a twist on a modern forensic technique. The “diatom test,” used today […]
This man drowned 5000 years ago. How do we know that? | National Geographic — Tom Metcalfe