The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
The Anzick burial is one of the most intensively studied early American sites, and the combination of taphonomic analysis, radiocarbon dating, isotopic analysis, artifact study, and ancient genomics has extracted an extraordinary amount of information from the preserved remains.
But the honest accounting of what we do not know is as important as the accounting of what we do.
We do not know the child’s name.
In a world before writing, names existed only in the memory of the people who used them, and no one alive today was there to hear what this child was called.
The name — if the child had one in the specific sense that the word implies — is irretrievably lost.
We do not know the exact cause of death.
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