The child buried at Anzick was a member of the same population whose hunting tools have been found at kill sites from Montana to Texas to Florida.

The artifacts in the burial belong to the same technological tradition as the Clovis points found in mammoth kill sites across the continent.

This connection — between a specific burial and the broader Clovis cultural horizon — is one of the most important aspects of the Anzick site’s significance.

Before the Anzick burial was studied, Clovis sites were primarily known from lithic scatters and kill sites.

The Anzick burial provided the first clearly documented Clovis burial with associated human remains, giving researchers a glimpse of the mortuary practices and social life of a culture known almost entirely from its stone tools.