The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
The Ice Age Animals That Shaped a Culture
The Clovis people whose most intimate known burial is the Anzick site lived in a world defined, more than anything else, by the presence of animals that no longer exist.
Understanding Clovis culture requires understanding the specific animals that Clovis people were hunting, scavenging, and built their entire technological and economic system around.
The woolly mammoth — Mammuthus primigenius — was, for populations across the northern part of the continent, the defining megafaunal prey animal.
Adult mammoths were enormous: large individuals could weigh six to eight tons and stand nearly four meters at the shoulder.
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