The child at Anzick was a member of the population from which Folsom, and eventually all subsequent North American archaeological cultures, descended.

The progressive diversification of Native American cultures over the millennia following Clovis — from the late Paleo-Indian cultures of the early Holocene through the Archaic period and eventually the diverse cultural traditions of the Late Prehistoric — reflects the gradual adaptation of a founding population to the full range of environments across the Americas.

The extraordinary biological and cultural diversity of Native American peoples at the time of European contact in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was the product of thousands of years of this adaptation and differentiation, all beginning from the founding event that the Anzick burial represents.

The Rocky Mountain Context and Clovis Dispersal