The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
Why were all of these objects buried with a child who was at most three years old?
The Questions That Puzzled Everyone
The Anzick burial’s most immediately puzzling aspect is not its age or its location or even the specific objects found within it.
The most puzzling aspect is the relationship between the artifacts and the person with whom they were interred.
Children in hunter-gatherer societies do not accumulate personal property in the way that adults do.
A child of one to three years has no hunting record.