The skeletal features that allow sex determination in adults are not developed in very young children, and the fragmentary nature of the Anzick remains made morphological sex determination impossible.

The genome, which includes sex chromosomes, provided the answer: the ancient DNA showed that the Anzick child was male.

This is a direct contribution of the genetic analysis that would otherwise have remained unknown.

The specific social structure and kinship system of Clovis society — questions that the burial strongly suggests were complex, given the evidence for hereditary status, but that cannot be directly recovered from a single burial — remain largely inaccessible.

The Anzick burial provides one data point about Clovis mortuary practice.