The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
The Genetic Diversity of Native American Populations Today
The Anzick genome’s confirmation that the Clovis child was ancestral to modern Native Americans raises a natural follow-up question: what is the relationship between the Clovis founding event and the genetic diversity of Native American populations today?
The answer is complex, because 13,000 years is a long time, and a lot happened between the Clovis founding and the present.
Modern Native American populations are genetically diverse — considerably more diverse in some respects than is sometimes appreciated.