This possibility — that the 23,000-year-old footprints of White Sands and the 12,600-year-old bones of Montana represent different moments in the same deep human story of the Americas — is one of the most compelling implications of the combined evidence from these two extraordinary sites.

The Bone Tools And What They Reveal

Much attention in the Anzick case has focused, understandably, on the stone tools — the Clovis points and bifaces that are among the defining objects of the earliest well-documented American technological tradition.

But the bone tools found in the Anzick burial are in some ways equally remarkable and have received less attention than they deserve.

Bone tools from the Clovis period are rare.