The 13,000-Year-Old Clovis Child Found With Ancient Weapons — And The Burial That Changed America’s First People Story
The Clovis people did not vanish; they adapted, diversified, and became the ancestors of all subsequent Native American peoples.
The Anzick child, buried at or near the very end of the Clovis period, stands at the threshold of this transformation.
The hunting tools buried with that young person represented a technology that was already beginning its transformation — that within a few hundred years of the burial would be replaced by new tool traditions suited to a world without mammoths.
The Importance of a Single Burial
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