“…Ethical discussions of genetic research on Ancestors of Indigenous populations have in fact been a subject of debate since the early days of the aDNA field (Harry, 2009; Kaestle & Horsburgh, 2002; O'Rourke et al, 2005; Sealy, 2003). With the development of new technologies and the reduction of DNA sequencing costs, aDNA studies have expanded their geographic coverage, and with it, the ethical concerns surrounding the subject, as we can see from the emerging body of literature (Alpaslan‐Roodenberg et al, 2021; Ávila‐Arcos et al, 2022; Bardill et al, 2018; Cortez et al, 2021; di Fabio Rocca et al, 2021; Fleskes et al, 2022; Fox & Hawks, 2019; Haelewaters et al, 2021; Heidt, 2022; Somel et al, 2021; Tsosie et al, 2020; Tsosie et al, 2021; Wagner et al, 2020; Wolinsky, 2019; Yáñez et al, 2022).…”