The date is extraordinary.

The genetics are extraordinary.

But the most extraordinary thing about the Anzick burial may be the most ordinary thing: that people loved this child, and they showed it in the most eloquent way they knew how.

That love lasted 13,000 years.

And when the descendants came to collect their ancestor, it was still legible in the red ochre and the careful points and the long, long wait.

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