Somewhere in the American Southwest before 30,000 years ago, this huntress stands with her tame bald eagle at the lip of a canyon winding through the arid plateau. She represents an enigmatic human population known as Population Y, who may have settled into the Americas thousands of years before the ancestors of modern Native Americans (who would have arrived approximately 15,000 years ago). Genetic traces of this population have been found in some South American peoples as well as Australasians, and possible archaeological evidence of their presence includes footprints in New Mexico dated to 23,000 years ago as well as a mammoth kill site dated to 37,000 years ago.