The extraordinary quantity and quality of the Anzick artifacts — representing a substantial portion of a group’s technological wealth — may indicate that the child’s family or social group was one of considerable standing within Clovis society.

A third interpretation, not exclusive of the others, notes that some of the Anzick artifacts show signs of use wear — marks of actual use in the activities for which they were designed — while others appear to be largely unused.

This variation might indicate that the assemblage combined items that had personal histories of use (belonging to specific adult members of the group) with items that had been newly made for the burial.

The combination of used and unused items would be consistent with an interpretation in which the burial assembled objects from multiple sources as part of a complex mortuary ritual.