It looks like what it is: northern Rockies ranch country, the product of a geological and ecological history that stretches back millions of years.

The Anzick site is on private land, and access to it is not generally available to the public.

This is appropriate — the site has been treated carefully since the reburial of 2014, and the privacy of the location honors the commitment to respect the child and the community’s ancestral connections to the site.

The reburial was conducted on the property, and the child returned to the Montana earth that had kept those remains for 13 millennia.

For those who think about what it means that this place exists — that somewhere in this working landscape of cattle and hay and sage, the remains of a Clovis child who died approximately 13,000 years ago were disturbed by a machine and then returned — it is difficult not to feel the weight of deep time pressing against the ordinary present.