In the specific context of the Anzick burial, the ochre was present in substantial quantities, suggesting a deliberate and careful application rather than incidental contamination.

The coating of both the human remains and the stone artifacts with ochre suggests that both the person and the objects were being treated as part of a unified ritual assemblage — that the stone tools were not merely practical objects being deposited with the dead but were being included in the same ritual treatment as the human remains.

The chemical composition of the ochre in the burial could potentially be analyzed to identify its geological source, since different iron oxide deposits have different chemical signatures.

Such analysis might reveal whether the ochre came from a local source or from a source at some distance, which would add to the evidence about Clovis mobility and resource networks.