| Given Kodiak's abundant resources, I asked Sven why he had gone around the
world to study reindeer herders in western Siberia. "To gain a new perspective,
and make more sense of things back here at home," Sven said quietly.
I realized just how much I had learned travelling with Bill, Sven,
Shane,
Marc [video], and
the entire team. I will never look at
hillsides or "mounds" in the same way again; now I know that even the
most innocuous places may hold clues to the
ancient past. The quest for those clues consumes entire lifetimes. We probably
will never know exactly from whence we came. But each year, people like Bill
Fitzhugh and Sven Haakanson discover a little more about our roots, helping us
make sense of our origins.
 
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