The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story

The authentication procedures drew on methods developed by multiple research groups across multiple countries.

The interpretation of the results required familiarity with genetic, archaeological, and paleoanthropological evidence from across the Americas and from northeastern Asia.

This international collaborative character of the research is itself significant.

The question of how the Americas were peopled is not merely an American question — it is one of the fundamental questions of human prehistory, relevant to understanding the history of our species as a whole.

The migrations that eventually led to the peopling of the Americas were the culmination of a global pattern of human dispersal that began in Africa and carried modern humans to every habitable corner of the earth.