We do not know the specific social structure of the group that created this burial — whether leadership was hereditary or achieved, how groups were organized and how decisions were made, what the specific kinship terminology and relationship categories were that structured social life for Clovis people.

These absences are not failures of research.

They are the irreducible limits of what physical evidence can tell us about the inner lives of people who left no written record.

The Anzick burial gives us more than almost any other early American site about the human reality of Clovis life.

And it still leaves the most intimate aspects of that reality — the feelings, the beliefs, the words, the names — beyond the reach of any analysis.

That gap between what can be known and what remains unknown is, perhaps, the most honest thing that can be said about Anzick and about the study of the deep human past.